a console can send to many simultaneous addresses in any ip address range.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr_P
it can only receive if the address to be received from is the address of the console or a broadcast address.
receiving from different addresses simultaeously on the same computer is also possible - its called - multihoming. but is not so common - but may be being used.
there is also a mode that software can use - where it can receive every tcpip packet on the net without filtering at os level. this is called raw mode....
its all quite complex...