Broadcast Socket and broadcast IP address : Broadcast : Network C# Examples

    
using  System;
using  System.Net;
using  System.Net.Sockets;
using  System.Text;
using  System.Threading;

class  MainClass
{
      public  static  void  Main()
      {
            Socket  sock  =  new  Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork,SocketType.Dgram,  ProtocolType.Udp);
            sock.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Socket,  SocketOptionName.Broadcast,  1);
            IPEndPoint  iep  =  new  IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Broadcast,  9999);

            string  hostname  =  Dns.GetHostName();
            byte[]  data  =  Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(hostname);
            while  (true)
            {
                  sock.SendTo(data,  iep);
                  Thread.Sleep(60000);
            }
      }
}