UDP Discovery library and applications

Description

UDPDiscovery is a library that implements a UDP based client and server objects that allow machines on a multicast enabled network to discover each other by means of clients issuing udp "pings" with "challenge" strings and servers responding with the machine information and any other arbitrary XML information based on a challenge.
The library is extendable and allows plugging in custom challenge handlers on the server side and custom transport (non UDP based if you want) both on the server and the client side.
The client can be used in blocking or non blocking mode.

UDPDiscovery demonstrates the following .Net features:

Networking classes
Threading and synchronization
XML Serialization
Tracing
Deployment projects

Download and installation

Download UDPDiscStp.ZIP, unzip and run setup.exe.
This will install the application and the source code.

Usage

Both server and client implementations are command line console applications.
The server runs until the user presses a key and then Enter. The client runs indefinitely: it pings the network , prints the results , waits for 5 seconds and repeats.
Run UDPDiscoverySrv.exe to start a server. Edit UDPDiscoverySrv.exe.config to change the tracing settings
Run to start a client. Edit UDPDiscoveryClnt.exe.config to change the tracing settings

Source code

Is installed in the SourceCode sub-folder of the application folder.

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