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IPX anyone?

Started by July 09, 2000 05:51 PM
0 comments, last by DanJames 24 years, 5 months ago
In all of the (2) FAQs and tutorials I have read, they say that programming IPX is slightly different to TCP/IP, but they don''t say how. How?
Using DirectPlay:

Instead of creating a session using a TCP information block(forgot the term, trying hard to forget anything I ever learned about DPlay) You would specify IPX as the provider instead of TCP/IP

Using Winsock:

When creating a socket, you would do everything the same, but instead of using IPPROTO_TCP or IPPROTO_TCP and AF_INET, You would use the definitions for IPX/SPX. Keep in mind that IPX/SPX behave differently than TCP or UDP. They are stream sockets that preserve message boundaries.

Hope that helps,
Jon Stelly

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