Re: [Dev-C++] Socket Programming

[Vakku J. C. <va...@ya...>]

Hi all

Mac and Flavio, Thanks for ur valuable comments, Now i
have enough to go through , and i will come come back
to u all with more specific doubts on this subject..

Thanks all.

vakku.


--- Mac Reiter <re...@no...> wrote:
> > Can some one help me in implementing a tcp/ip
> socket
> >using c. My ultimate goal is using minimum hardware
> >interface a microcontroller to the ethernet.
> >
> >As mentioned above i am very new to this field, all
> i
> >know is microcontroller. As a kickstart for this ,
> i
> >would like to do a communication with pc-pc on the
> >existing ethernet layer what we have in our office.
> >I need to mention that i have never done socket
> >programming before. Please suggest me all the
> possible
> >ways for reaching my goal (any books for a beginner
> >like me ).
> 
> I am going to take a slightly different approach
> than most, since you
> mentioned wanting to attach a microcontroller to the
> ethernet.  If you
> meant an x86 CPU running Windows (which is the only
> platform supported by
> Dev-C++, as far as I know), then you should check
> out the books that have
> already been mentioned in other posts.
> 
> If, instead, you are running on a tiny processor
> (8051, 6501, PIC, etc),
> you might be interested in the following very
> lightweight and very small
> TCP/IP stacks.  Both are by the same guy, one is a
> little bit more capable
> than the other.
> 
> WARNING : To the best of my knowledge, neither stack
> uses the standard
> "Berkeley Sockets" functional API, which is what
> both Windows and UNIX
> networking is usually based on.  Learning to use
> either of these stacks
> WILL NOT help you in learning to program networking
> applications for
> Windows or UNIX.  But if all you want is a tiny
> computer talking on the
> network, they might fit your requirements.  (It is
> possible that the lwIP
> stack actually does support the "Berkeley Sockets"
> standard API, but they
> claim it is an optional component, and I don't know
> how closely they
> actually followed all of the specifications for that
> API.)
> 
> http://www.sics.se/~adam/lwip/
> http://dunkels.com/adam/uip/
> 
> Share and enjoy!
> Mac
> -
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