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[Damien HENRY]

ouahoo !!!

Quick and Great !!!

any idea about the netreceive now ;-)

Damien.

Le Vendredi 17 Mai 2002 01:44, Olaf Matthes a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> no problem, check the site again and look for 'netdist' (not yet included
> in the library). It's a multithreaded netsend that has been modyfied to
> allow multiple connections in 'dist' style. I hope the multithreading stuff
> will work under Linux as well...
>
> Olaf
>
> Damien HENRY schrieb:
> > > there are two objects, 'dist' and 'remote', which can be used to send
> > > data to 'receive' objects. 'dist' (or just 'd') allows to use 'connect
> > > <name>' messages to add names of receive objects to a list (and
> > > 'disconnect <name>' to remove them).
> >
> > I've testing them yet, but the basic idea of thoses too object is just
> > fantastic !
> >
> > I'm looking for the same, but about netsend & netreceive.
> >
> > I whant to be able to send from 1 object to an arbitrary number of
> > netreiceve. In the code of the netsend object (x_net.c )there is a test
> > to disable the creation of a new socket if there is already a connection.
> >
> > if (x->x_fd >= 0)
> >     {
> >         error("netsend_connect: already connected");
> >         return;
> >     }
> >
> >         /* create a socket */
> >     sockfd = socket(AF_INET, x->x_protocol, 0);
> >
> > if I remove this test, is there a chance that it will work without
> > crashing ?
> >
> > Netreceive is already able to receive from diferent sources and even to
> > tell to how many.
> > But is there here a socket gourou to give me a clue to do the hack in way
> > that netreceive will output things like :
> >
> > 19.168.1.1 test 1
> > 19.168.1.3 test 3
> >
> > I mean to use the IP addresse of the sender as a selector.
> > my goal is to diferentiate the data by their sender.
> >
> > Thanks to anyone that can help me about it.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Damien.