NetBurner Community Forum

I am trying to determine the best way to discover products that our company will deploy on a network that use the Netburner module. I will be developing an app in Visual C++ that needs to discover all of our products and provide the user with a list to choose from. This would be very similar to the way the Netburner tools work. It looks like either UDP Broadcasts or some form of Multicast would work. The problem I'm trying to solve is how to select the port numbers to use for the connection. Is there a "best practices" method that should be used here?

Take a look and the example program..

nburn\pctools\find

This will find all netburner derived devices on the local network.
It will also give you the device type and application name, this can be easily modified to do exactly what you want.

There is also apython version of the same thing in the same directory.