I''m looking for some sort of networking library that I can use--just reading about network coding has me overwhelmed. I don''t want to spend a couple months learning all that stuff. It would be really nice if I could get a good network library. There are a few requirements: 1) Has to work on Windows and Linux. 2) Needs to be high level. Not looking for some simple abstraction of sockets, I need a really nice DirectPlay-like lib. 3) It would be nice if it was open source, but not necessary. I''d appreciate any links.

hi,
SDLnet covers point 1 and 3.
it ist not very ''high level'' tho.
But it is easy enough.

http://www.libsdl.org

Lazzar

Try RakNet,... i switched from hawknl about a month ago i will NEVER go back,... it''s very high-level, it works with Linux and it''s free for non-commercial use...

It also has some cool features like a build-in UDP reliability layer.

I don''t have any experience with it, but you can try ACE. It''s networking library for C++. You can download it for free (tho I don''t know where and I''m too lazy to google for you ). The author has also written two books which, I guess, can be pretty usefull.