From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: libsocket over the net...
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:54:35 +0000
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Hello.

Sahab Yazdani wrote:
> 
> Richard Dawe wrote:
> 
> > What did you change? Why is the data no longer garbled? Knowing this
> > could help fix your other problems.
> 
> I decreased the size of the MassacreHeader packet by 6 bytes by
> decreasing the size of the "header" value to 4 bytes instead of 10, this
> seems to fix it, cuz it only needs 1 pass to read the data no matter
> what.
[snip]

Well, the minimum size of an IP packet is 576 bytes, so that should be
more than enough to hold the header data, whichever of these sizes is
used.
 
> > Which version of Windows are you using? Do you have Winsock 2
> > installed?
> I am using Windows 98 with WinSock 2 installed (obviously).
> 
> >
> > What does the libsocket demo program demo/diag.exe display? You can
> > capture its output like so:
[snip]
> included as attachment

Thanks, that looks OK.

When you test your program, do you do it over a dial-up link or is it over
Ethernet?

I can't really explain your problems. Would it be possible for you to send
me the source code? Then I could try to reproduce the problem when I have
some free time later this week.

Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ 

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