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[Macoder]

Hi, I'd like to write a program that can communicate with copies of itself running on multiple computers throughout the house. All the computers are on the same network, and I just want to send variables (or files with the variables) back and forth between the computers. The final goal is to get an app that autoconnects with every computer on the LAN and starts a group audio chat between them. (for gaming on different desktop computers throughout the house, I don't like having to type in a username and password and manually starting the chat on all online software)

Is there a library to do this? It need to be mac compatible.

Thanks!

[Alexander]

Wasn't AppleTalk invented for this? WiFi resolutes to simple networking programming (assuming infrastructure not ad hoc) and audio there must be a simple Apple library for this.

[Milyardo]

AppleTalk is an alternative for to IPv4+DHCP for automatic network addressing.

I think what he is looking for a library for automatic network service discovery, also known as Zeroconf. On Unix systems that Library is known as Avahi.

[untitled_1]

I think you can program it as though you are programming it for a wired LAN .... Lower layer protocols will handle the actual transmission, it doesn't make sense to have to program a different way for Wi-Fi...