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+
+namespace MediaBrowser.Model.Net
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Implemented by components that can create a platform specific UDP socket implementation, and wrap it in the cross platform <see cref="IUdpSocket"/> interface.
+    /// </summary>
+    public interface ISocketFactory
+	{
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Createa a new unicast socket using the specified local port number.
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="localPort">The local port to bind to.</param>
+		/// <returns>A <see cref="IUdpSocket"/> implementation.</returns>
+		IUdpSocket CreateUdpSocket(int localPort);
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Createa a new unicast socket using the specified local port number.
+        /// </summary>
+        IUdpSocket CreateSsdpUdpSocket(IpAddressInfo localIp, int localPort);
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Createa a new multicast socket using the specified multicast IP address, multicast time to live and local port.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="ipAddress">The multicast IP address to bind to.</param>
+        /// <param name="multicastTimeToLive">The multicast time to live value. Actually a maximum number of network hops for UDP packets.</param>
+        /// <param name="localPort">The local port to bind to.</param>
+        /// <returns>A <see cref="IUdpSocket"/> implementation.</returns>
+        IUdpSocket CreateUdpMulticastSocket(string ipAddress, int multicastTimeToLive, int localPort);
+
+        ISocket CreateSocket(IpAddressFamily family, SocketType socketType, ProtocolType protocolType, bool dualMode);
+    }
+
+    public enum SocketType
+    {
+        Stream
+    }
+
+    public enum ProtocolType
+    {
+        Tcp
+    }
+}