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Reverse engineering the Unity Network Discovery protocol to broadcast from a 3rd party source
// see blog post here: https://shoreparty.org/reverse-engineering-the-unity-network-discovery-protocol-9cd01280ed08
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.NetworkInformation;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
namespace UnityNetworkDicoveryReimplementation
{
class Program
{
private static byte[] GetBytesForInt(int i) => BitConverter.GetBytes(i).Reverse().ToArray();
private static byte[] CreateMessage()
{
var l = new List<byte>();
l.AddRange(new byte[] {0x00, 0x00, 0x09}); // prefix
var rand = new byte[2];
new Random().NextBytes(rand);
l.AddRange(rand); // random value per started session
l.AddRange(GetBytesForInt(36001)); // KEY
l.AddRange(Enumerable.Repeat(0, 4*8).Select(x => (byte)x)); // padding
l.AddRange(GetBytesForInt(1)); // VER
l.AddRange(GetBytesForInt(1)); // SUBVER
l.AddRange(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("test data please ignore").Select(x => new byte[]{x, 0x00}).SelectMany(y => y)); // DATA
return l.ToArray();
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var interfaces = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces().Where(x => x.GetIPProperties().GatewayAddresses.Any()).ToList();
var dict = interfaces.ToDictionary(x => x, y => y.GetIPProperties().GatewayAddresses[0].Address);
var msg = CreateMessage();
var uc = new UdpClient();
while (true)
{
Thread.Sleep(2000);
foreach (var id in dict)
{
Console.WriteLine($"Sending broadcast for interface {id.Key.Name} {id.Value}");
var broadcastIp = new IPAddress(id.Value.GetAddressBytes().Take(3).Concat(new[] {(byte) 0xff}).ToArray());
uc.Send(msg, msg.Length, broadcastIp.ToString(), 64764);
}
}
}
}
}
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