First off I will just say that I have been programming for years and I am very familiar with sockets and multiplexing/async network io.

This will be for developing a large scale game server (like for a 3d MMO).

I need to know things like:

• Architecture(s)
• common issues to look out for
• best practices
• common components of a game server (sync server, chat server, etc)

I can fill in any gaps that I have. I just need to know all the moving parts.

Thanks ~ mullagain