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UDP server (binary)

UDP send/receive utilities for binary payloads.

repo: https://github.com/EricSpencer00/UDP-server-binary

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Repository

<https://github.com/EricSpencer00/UDP-server-binary>

Tools

udprecv: Binds to a UDP port, receives one packet, prints sender and payload.
udpsendstreamfile: Sends a file as UDP packets.

Commands


make
./bin/udprecv 9000
./bin/udpsend_stream_file 127.0.0.1 9000 test.bin
nc -u -l 9000 > received.bin
shasum -a 256 test.bin received.bin

Build

make produces binaries in bin/.

Notes

UDP is lossy.
Extendable for sequence numbers or timestamps.

Related

NASDAQ ITCH parser: <https://github.com/EricSpencer00/itch-parser-eric>