Sending & Receiving UDP Via FireWire

Cian Murphy's icon

Hey,

I'm having trouble sending data via UDP send from my Mac Pro to My Macbook Pro via Firewire. I've declared my udpsend 127.0.0.1 78561 from the mac pro and then udpreceive 78561 on the macbook pro with the Firewire cable connected but I'm getting nothing sent through.

Could it be a firewall issue? and if so has anybody else encountered this?

Thank

Pedro Santos's icon

127.0.0.1 means "localhost", i.e. the Mac Pro machine itself in this case. So the messages never get out. You have to specify the IP address of the target machine (MacBook Pro).
Open System Preferences / Network and check the IP address of the MacBook Pro and use it instead.

Cian Murphy's icon

Hello!

Thank you so much. Got it working

I entered the IP of the receiving Macbook Pro into the UDP send in the mac pro patch (with a made up port number) and I am now receiving messages on the UDP receive (with the relevant port number) on the macbook pros patch. Thank you so much for clarifying this with me! Very informative

Bests!