Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed101.telia.com!starscream.dk.telia.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: LAN strategy (Android) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:02:25 +0100 Organization: Dirk Bruere at Neopax Lines: 20 Message-ID: Reply-To: dirk.bruere@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net CX4IkwEZ5D978946Y7sN1wFsgR3TXIqb+84a8/Q2WbCiIG63ZObLMYRspqlkGWTCc9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:X2q1Kvtzx1BPEIey83bpe7Qs8fA= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120730-0, 30/07/2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:16689 What's the best way to do this? I have to read from a LAN using UDP. I open a socket by doing a name lookup (the name of a PC I want to connect to) and port number as the app starts. In a thread I loop around reading the socket for messages and act on them. The problem is what do I do if I cannot access the LAN on startup and so miss getting the name/address? As far as I can see the app sits there doing nothing even if the LAN becomes available. Alternatively, do I put the name/address lookup in the thread loop, and if so, how? -- Dirk Full Spectrum Praxis : ZERO STATE : http://zerostate.net