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Multicast Program

This document contains code for a multicast server and client program in Java. The server program sends 5 messages to a multicast group address and port over 5 seconds. The client program joins the multicast group to receive the messages sent by the server and prints them out.

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Multicast Program

This document contains code for a multicast server and client program in Java. The server program sends 5 messages to a multicast group address and port over 5 seconds. The client program joins the multicast group to receive the messages sent by the server and prints them out.

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MULTICAST PROGRAM

SERVER:
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.DatagramPacket;
import java.net.DatagramSocket;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;

public class MulticastSocketServer {

final static String INET_ADDR = "224.0.0.3";


final static int PORT = 8888;

public static void main(String[] args) throws UnknownHostException, InterruptedException {


// Get the address that we are going to connect to.
InetAddress addr = InetAddress.getByName(INET_ADDR);

// Open a new DatagramSocket, which will be used to send the data.


try (DatagramSocket serverSocket = new DatagramSocket()) {
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
String msg = "Sent message no " + i;

// Create a packet that will contain the data


// (in the form of bytes) and send it.
DatagramPacket msgPacket = new DatagramPacket(msg.getBytes(),
msg.getBytes().length, addr, PORT);
serverSocket.send(msgPacket);

System.out.println("Server sent packet with msg: " + msg);


Thread.sleep(500);
}
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

CLIENT:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.DatagramPacket;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.MulticastSocket;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;

public class MulticastSocketClient {


final static String INET_ADDR = "224.0.0.3";
final static int PORT = 8888;
public static void main(String[] args) throws UnknownHostException {
// Get the address that we are going to connect to.
InetAddress address = InetAddress.getByName(INET_ADDR);
// Create a buffer of bytes, which will be used to store
// the incoming bytes containing the information from the server.
// Since the message is small here, 256 bytes should be enough.
byte[] buf = new byte[256];
// Create a new Multicast socket (that will allow other sockets/programs
// to join it as well.
try (MulticastSocket clientSocket = new MulticastSocket(PORT)){
//Joint the Multicast group.
clientSocket.joinGroup(address);
while (true) {
// Receive the information and print it.
DatagramPacket msgPacket = new DatagramPacket(buf, buf.length);
clientSocket.receive(msgPacket);
String msg = new String(buf, 0, buf.length);
System.out.println("Socket 1 received msg: " + msg);
}
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
OUTPUT:

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