Yes, you were right it was already there (sorry, my mistake), the bigger problem is how do I send an ack packet????????
Joe Knapka wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I need my udp server to send an ACK back to the client when it > > successfully receives data from the client to let it know not to retry > > the send (yes, I do know this is how TCP works but must be in UDP) > > I am using this example code I found on the net for the server, I need > > to figure out how to get the ip and port that the client transmitted > > from and return an ack response. Any help would be greatly > > appreciated.......... > > > > from socket import * > > > > # Set the socket parameters > > host = "localhost" > > port = 21567 > > buf = 1024 > > addr = (host,port) > > > > # Create socket and bind to address > > UDPSock = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM) > > UDPSock.bind(addr) > > > > # Receive messages > > while 1: > > data,addr = UDPSock.recvfrom(buf) > > Um... There's the sender's address, right there, > per the documentation for recvfrom(), which you > seem to have read, since you know recvfrom() > returns a 2-item sequence. > > No doubt you realized that seconds after hitting > "send". > > -- JK -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
