From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 21:32:59 GMT
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On Tue, 30 May 2000 20:05:08 +0100, Richard Dawe
<richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> wrote:

>Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
>> Even though libnet has its own peculiar API and application protocol
>> (built on top of UDP and designed for netgames), it's designed along
>> the same lines (and by some of the same fellas) as the Allegro library
>> (does the job the same on all supported platforms).
>
>Thanks for the info there. I confess I don't know much about libnet. I
>wonder how much work it'd be to add a BSD sockets layer on top?

I don't think it'd be possible in the general case (most of the time,
hackers come here looking for something so they can HTTP; HTTP
requires TCP; libnet doesn't do TCP).  However, a BSD sockets wrapper
around the libnet protocol would probably be quite easy; libnet has
channels (~= datagram sockets) and conns (~= stream sockets).  The
main reason I turned away from libnet was that its examples all used
90% CPU time on my Linux box (portability good, polling bad).

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