somnushaxxor / local-copy-detector

📡 CLI application that detects its own copies on the local network

📡 Local Copy Detector

This is a simple CLI application that runs on the local network and detects its own copies.

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✨ Description

The project's aim is to learn what is multicasting and how it can be used within socket programming.

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🧰 Technologies

• Java 17

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🚀 Run

Run the following command from the project root directory:

./gradle run --args="MULTICAST_ADDRESS MULTICAST_PORT MULTICAST_NETWORK_INTERFACE"

where:

• MULTICAST_ADDRESS is an IPv4 address in range from 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255
• MULTICAST_PORT is a port which the application will be listening on
• MULTICAST_NETWORK_INTERFACE is an interface to receive multicast datagram packets

Example:

./gradle run --args="230.1.1.1 12000 wifi0"

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💡 Usage

Press Ctrl+C to stop the application.