GNet Network Library Reference Manual

GNet Network Library Reference Manual

David Helder

dhelder@umich.edu

This manual documents GNet, a networking library. It gives an overview of GNet, discusses examples that come with GNet, and includes detailed documentation of the GNet API.

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Table of Contents

GNet Overview

GNet for developers

Compiling programs with GNet
Other tips and tricks

GNet Examples

echoclient and echoserver
hfetch
SDR
Llama Joust
Various test files

GNet Library Reference

GNet main module — Main header and utility functions.
Internet address — Internet address.
TCP — Tcp socket (stream).
UDP — UDP (datagram).
Multicast — Multicast.
IOChannel — IOChannel utility functions
pack — Data packing and unpacking.
MD5 — MD5 Hash
SHA — SHA Hash
URL — Universal Resource Locator (e.g. http://www.gnetlibrary.org/index.html)
Connection — TCP Connection
Server — TCP Server

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