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The app will be more useful if support subnets like iptux:

What do you want to achieve with subnets? Excluding clients?

The opposite. Include clients from another networks. Work in more complex networks: If one client wanna talk with another and the second client was in another network. In practice just let the user add another user with the IP or the user enter another IPs range for search users, like the app iptux. The app (Kouchat) don't need to make the structure, just use. To test, just have a network connected to another, such as for example. with a repeater that gives a different IP, from the Wi-Fi where it connects, to its clients.

KouChat uses multicast for communication and multicast can work across IP ranges if the switch forwards the packets. Consumer switches probably won't let you configure that though.

With that in mind, it's not very easy to force communication to work the way you suggest if packets are blocked by the network equipment.

But a good suggestion anyway. Perhaps I can find a solution in the future.

IPTux is a exemple: https://github.com/iptux-src/iptux