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// Client side implementation of UDP client-server model
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>

#define PORT 8008
#define MAXLINE 1024

// Driver code
int main() {
        char buffer[MAXLINE];
        struct sockaddr_in servaddr;

        // Creating socket file descriptor

        int sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
        if ( sockfd < 0 ) {
                perror("socket creation failed");
                exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
        }

        struct timeval timeout;
        timeout.tv_sec = 1; //Wait 1 second
        timeout.tv_usec = 0;

        if (setsockopt (sockfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, &timeout, sizeof timeout) < 0) perror("setsockopt failed\n");

        if (setsockopt (sockfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDTIMEO, &timeout, sizeof timeout) < 0) perror("setsockopt failed\n");

        memset(&servaddr, 0, sizeof(servaddr));

        // Filling server information
        servaddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
        servaddr.sin_port = htons(PORT);
        servaddr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("192.168.4.65");

        for(int i = 0; i < 10; ++i){
                char* message = "PING";
                int sendStatus = sendto(sockfd, (const char *)message, strlen(message), MSG_CONFIRM, (const struct sockaddr *) &servaddr, sizeof(servaddr));
                if(sendStatus >= 0){
                        printf("Sent PING\n");
                }else{
                        printf("Send failed\n");
                        continue;
                }

                int len = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
                int bytesRecieved = recvfrom(sockfd, (char *)buffer, MAXLINE, MSG_WAITALL, (struct sockaddr *) &servaddr, &len); //We can reuse servaddr because the port the server sends messages from is the same one we send to
                if(bytesRecieved >= 0){
                        buffer[bytesRecieved] = '\0';
                        printf("Recieved %s\n", buffer);
                }else{
                        printf("Recieved nothing: Packet Dropped\n", buffer);
                }
        }

        close(sockfd);

        return 0;
}