Re: Basic networking question
Re: Basic networking question
- Subject: Re: Basic networking question
- From: Justin Walker <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 19:22:24 -0700
On May 10, 2005, at 15:34, Alex Kettner wrote:
Hi,
I would like to be able to send and receive some data over the
network. The data size can be very small < 1K. The functionality is
basically to broadcast an application's existence once it starts up
and receive like packets of data from the network from other copies of
the same application. Does this make sense? Can anyone either describe
the necessary steps to do this or direct me to some good sources of
information. I am a novice at network issues.
For networking advice, from the very basic to the more sophisticated,
and for good examples of how to implement various algorithms (such as
the one you mention), I always turn to the book "Unix Network
Programming, V1", by W. Richard Stevens. The 2nd Ed. is somewhat out
of date, but still a good bet. I have heard good things about the 3rd
Ed., significantly updated by others (Stevens died several years ago),
although I've not looked at it.
For the impatient, check out his website, <http://www.kohala.com> and
follow the links there. It has a batch of code that "should work",
although there may a few gotchas in some areas (simple to repair; and
we can answer specific questions).
The code includes some client/server examples that do roughly what you
want.
From there, you can graduate to higher levels, like
RendezvousXXXXXXXXXXXXBonjour or one of many "RPC" varieties.
Regards,
Justin
--
Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large
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