Is it possible to create and to detect LAN servers avoiding MasterServer?
Quake uses broadcast pings to detect servers. I mean, client sends broadcast request (to the whole LAN) and a server (if exists) responds to the client. So they find each other.
Is it possible to use this scheme in Unity?
Thank you.
You could probably implement that using standard .NET features from the System.Net.Socket namespace and System.Net.NetworkInformation namespace.
Use .Net Socket.
Create two Udpclient with two ports, one for listening and one for sending. The Udpclient for sending should connect to 255.255.255.255 when broadcasting. However in this way u can only broadcast messages in the same network segment, (eg. if your ip is 192.168.1.#,
u can’t broadcast message to 192.168.0.# in this way). I haven’t figure it out how to broadcast msg across routers.
Anyway it’s pretty simple, because basicly u just need to broadcast your ipAddress to others, and once you got the host’s ip you can use Unity’s Network to do the rest of things