from typing import Any, Tuple, Generator from ipaddress import IPv6Address import re import socket import time import struct # Initialise socket for IPv6 datagrams sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET6, socket.SOCK_DGRAM, socket.IPPROTO_UDP) # Allows address to be reused sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1) # Binds to all interfaces on the given port sock.bind(('', 1212)) # Allow messages from this socket to loop back for development #sock.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_IPV6, socket.IPV6_MULTICAST_LOOP, True) # Construct message for joining multicast group #mreq = struct.pack("16s15s".encode('utf-8'), socket.inet_pton(socket.AF_INET6, "ff02::4242:4242"), (chr(0) * 16).encode('utf-8')) mreq = struct.pack("16s15s", socket.inet_pton(socket.AF_INET6, "ff02::4242:4242"), bytes(socket.INADDR_ANY)) sock.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_IPV6, socket.IPV6_JOIN_GROUP, mreq) data, addr = sock.recvfrom(1024) print(data) print(addr[0], addr[1]) time.sleep(3) sock.sendto("hello world".encode('utf-8'), ("addr[0]", int(addr[1])))