Name: gm110360 Date: 08/05/2003


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
When a DatagramPacket is received using the DatagramSocket.receive() call, there does not seem to be any way to get the destination address to which the packet was sent. The getAddress() method returns the address of the sender for a received packet.

JUSTIFICATION :
An application may want to take a different action based on whether the destination address was unicast or broadcast - i.e., did my application receive this alone, or did everyone else also receive this packet?

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
I would like to see additional methods provided to get the destination address and port to which the packet was sent.
ACTUAL -
Methods do not exist - actual behavior of getting destination address is not possible.

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CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
No workaround - simply cannot get the destination address of incoming packets.
(Incident Review ID: 191382)
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