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+/* This example demonstrates:
+- conventional UDP socket API can be used in a connection-oriented fashion
+    - first setup with `bind` and `connect`
+    - henceforth communicating with connected peer using `send` and `recv` in blocking mode.
+*/
+#include <netinet/in.h> // definies socketaddr_in
+#include <stdio.h>  // defines printf
+#include <stdlib.h> // defines malloc, free
+#include <unistd.h> // defines close
+#include <arpa/inet.h> // defines inet_addr
+#define BUFSIZE 512
+int main() {
+    // --- setup ---
+    struct sockaddr_in addrs[2]; 
+    addrs[0].sin_family = AF_INET;
+    addrs[0].sin_port = htons(8000);
+    inet_pton(AF_INET, "127.0.0.1", &addrs[0].sin_addr.s_addr);
+    addrs[1].sin_family = AF_INET;
+    addrs[1].sin_port = htons(8001);
+    inet_pton(AF_INET, "127.0.0.1", &addrs[1].sin_addr.s_addr);
+    int fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0); 
+    bind(fd, (const struct sockaddr *)&addrs[0], sizeof(addrs[0]));
+    connect(fd, (const struct sockaddr *)&addrs[1], sizeof(addrs[1]));
+    // --- communication ---
+    char * buffer = malloc(BUFSIZE);
+    size_t msglen, i;
+    msglen = recv(fd, (void *)buffer, BUFSIZE, 0);
+    for(i=0; i<msglen; i++) {
+        printf("%02X", buffer[i]);
+    }
+    // --- cleanup ---
+    close(fd);
+    free(buffer);
+    return 0;
+}