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Without modifying anything about your example code from main github page, I get this error:

*Fedora 20, node v.0.10.28:
dgram.js:248
throw new TypeError('First argument must be a buffer object.');
^
TypeError: First argument must be a buffer object.
at Socket.send (dgram.js:248:11)
at Socket.socket.write (/home/q2dg/node_modules/broadcast-stream/index.js:16:12)
at null. (/home/q2dg/borrar:7:34)
at wrapper as _onTimeout
at Timer.listOnTimeout as ontimeout

*Fedora 20, node v.0.11.12:
dgram.js:242
throw new TypeError('First argument must be a buffer or string.');
^
TypeError: First argument must be a buffer or string.
at Socket.send (dgram.js:242:11)
at Socket.socket.write (/home/q2dg/node_modules/broadcast-stream/index.js:16:12)
at null. (/home/q2dg/borrar:7:34)
at wrapper as _onTimeout
at Timer.listOnTimeout (timers.js:133:15)

I've not being able to pipe something into a buffer using concat-stream. I guess because there's not a clear way to gracefully end the stream. Neither with destroy.

Any hints?

I was talking to some folks in the dweb camp IRC and we were discussing how to get various protocols working and it was brought up that using something like CJDNS or Yggdrasil for routing could cause problems for SSB since it's local node discovery wouldn't work.

It'd be cool if this module had a fallback to use multicast in IPv6.

I think what would need to be done is:

• Figuring out which IPv6 address to broadcast to. Maybe the "all nodes address" described here
• Have an option to open up the IPv6 socket in tandem to the IPv4 socket (or can it be reused?)
• Send outgoing data to both sockets, and merge incoming data from the socket into messages in the stream
• Test with SSB in an IPv6 network

cc @staltz

To send messages also outside the local network.