How does IP messenger work?

@krishprateek-vrpct6 • Oct 25, 2024

Oct 25, 2024

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can someone plz tell me as to how the ip messenger catches or recognizes the host name of all active users and how does it retrieve the ip address of all connected devices??? It wld be very helpful is someone could give me a quick answer

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rahul69

@rahul69-97fAOs • Dec 27, 2012

Well, it uses Java Socket Programming to perform the above mentioned tasks.

Wanna know more? Well, it creates a multicast object and uses the methods like InetAddress.getByName() and other similar other methods to meet its ends. You can search for the InetAddress class to get more info 😁 .

Still want more? As this software is open source, u too can check the code for urself!! 😎 and ask any difficulties u face here.

Still got some doubts? You can ask us and we would be happy to help!👍
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krishprateek

@krishprateek-vrpct6 • Dec 27, 2012

Thanxx for the rply.....but i actually dont want to get into the coding part.....i want to understand it frm the TCP/IP point of view....as to how it works at the layer level???😀
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rahul69

@rahul69-97fAOs • Dec 28, 2012
krishprateek
Thanxx for the rply.....but i actually dont want to get into the coding part.....i want to understand it frm the TCP/IP point of view....as to how it works at the layer level???😀
I think it happens in the following manner:
- When the software starts, it broadcasts the packet to all computers on the Lan and those which have same software running responds.
- Thus it gets a list of active users as hostnames are received as the response by the other computers.
- Then it calculates the IP Addresses from the hostnames using getbyname() function told above.
- The chat server starts running on a predetermined port to address the communication.
The software uses multithreading to handle different operations separately.
Hope it answers your query!😀
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krishprateek

@krishprateek-vrpct6 • Jan 2, 2013

thanks a lot man.....the above info was really helpful...
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