https://github.com/bastidood/udp-multicast-chat
A simple chat room over UDP multicast written in Rust.
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A simple chat room over UDP multicast written in Rust.
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UDP Multicast Chat Room
UDP multicast provides a mechanism for one-to-many communication in a network. Unlike broadcasting, a multicast may only be received by those subscribed to the particular multicast address of interest. This application implements a basic chat room multicast over a local area network.
[!CAUTION] All messages in the chat room are sent over unencrypted UDP multicast channels.
Architecture
For the user interface, this project uses the egui framework. In the back-end, the Tokio runtime powers all asynchronous workloads: networking, synchronization, and task scheduling.
The main thread runs the user interface logic. On a separate networking thread, the Tokio runtime handles incoming and outgoing messages. Information is passed between the two threads via channels.
On startup, the network back-end initializes a socket that binds to 0.0.0.0:3000. The socket then joins the multicast address 224.0.0.69:3000. To prevent multiple instances of the application to bind to the same address (on the same device), the SO_REUSEADDR flag is disabled. All of these values may be tweaked via the command-line interface.
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Usage: udp-multicast-chat [-a
Networking options.
Options: -a, --addr multicast address that the socket must join -p, --port specific port to bind the socket to --reuse whether or not to allow the UDP socket to be reused by another application --help display usage information ```
To run the server
```bash
Bind to 0.0.0.0:3000, then join the multicast address
224.0.0.69:3000, and launch the user interface.
cargo run --release -- --addr 224.0.0.69 --port 3000 ```
Owner
- Name: Basti Ortiz
- Login: BastiDood
- Kind: user
- Location: Philippines
- Twitter: BastiDood
- Repositories: 2
- Profile: https://github.com/BastiDood
Just some dood hoping to make a career out of typing programming jargon to make stuff work.
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