Why isnt the socket option "reuseaddress" exposed to MetroCore?
I am trying to implement the standard WS-DISCOVERY protocol using the raw sockets and have everything working except I am unable to consistently bind to UDP port (servicename) 3702 for multicast as it's already in use.
I get that you might not want us to implement servers which would be the normal use case for reuse, but this is a standard client protocol that requires the client to listen out for HELLOs and BYEs across the network and so requires a multicast listener
on a consistent port that all apps use.
I dont think I can use the DNS SRV records in this case so am not sure I can implement this.
Any suggestions appreciated.
EDIT: I found a similar post in the Javascript forum
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithhtml5/thread/2e4cc209-843c-484e-982f-d434d663eca0
which referred to article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740621(VS.85).aspx but this was rather unfulfilling as the article specifically states that the one legitimate
use of socket re-use without security risk is specifically for multicast listeners which is exactly what I and the original javascript poster wanted to do. They wanted to do UPNP on port 1900, which is similar enough to WS_DISCOVERY.
Again, any workaround appreciated.
