2003-06-12T13:20:38 Greg Brigley: > :) Yes. From an implementation perspective, using the network > sounds simpler and more flexible. But going without it reduces > the amount of configuration our users have to do, and the amount > of support that we have to do.
I just occurred to me, any possibility it might make sense to use a network protocol over the network bridge cable, and save the user from having to configure Windows networking by building your Windows-side app on the Window pcap library? Given you've got a pure point-to-point connection, with only two participants, one of which can always be the initiator, the full complexity of TCP is probably not necessary. Writing a simple UDP-based protocol with acknowlegements, checksums, sequence numbers, and retries should be fairly painless I'd think. Don't even worry about address negotiation, just hardwire in one address for the host side and another for the client; since you aren't going to be pointing the OS's network stack at this interface no need to worry about conflicts, no? -Bennett
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