Dear community,

Can I assign an IP address to a Pure Data patch? So I can connect to it using this specific IP?

@suppervieira No, but you can use [netreceive] with a specific port.
The computer Pd is running on will have an IP address and you can connect to "IP(of the computer):port(specified in netreceive)"
David.

@whale-av David, in the help patch for [netreceive] there is an option for specifying IP address for use with multicast. Could that be used? (I don't know what multicast is....)

@jameslo Multicast is an address that all hosts on the network will listen to if they have joined a group.
So they listen for messages sent to their specific IP and also those sent to a multicast IP.
Multicast addresses are in a specific range and the host receiving has to join the multicast group.
There are also broadcast addresses for which no group has to be joined.
They are used mainly to say "hello..... I am here"..... to announce their presence on the network.
David.