NetDiscovery

A simple, small library for local area networks server discovery (DHCP-Like). Currently only supports IPv4 via Broadcast (no IPv6 Multicast).

As of 2019-05-21, this project is archived. If you're interested in doing something like this, you may want to use UPnP as it also supports IPv6 and does not rely on broadcasts (multicats instead).

Sample Usage

Client:

Discoverer severDiscoverer = new Discoverer(9007);
DiscoveryResult res = severDiscoverer.Discover();
if(!res.Canceled && !res.Error)
{
	var receivedEndpoint = res.OfferedEndPoint;
	// The sample client-server-application can now operate via the reveivedEndpoint (for example a chat)
}

Server:

// endPointForChat is the IPEndPoint the client-server-application actually uses (a chat, for example)
Discoverable clientHandler = new Discoverable(9007, endPointForChat);
clientHandler.ListenAsync() // handle client broadcast requests

// now the server has to listen for connections on endPointForChat