Chapter 2:

Some Protocol Characteristics Story

C & Winsock: The Kick Start programming tutorials

C & Linux Socket

Program Example Index

C#, VB .NET & C++/CLI Network Programming

Windows Device Driver Development & Program Examples

ReactOS - Windows OS Binary Compatible Open Source Project - C & C++

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What do we have in this chapter?

1. Message-Oriented

Stream-Oriented

Pseudo Stream

Connection-Oriented and Connectionless

Reliability and Ordering

Graceful Close

Broadcast Data

Multicast Data

Quality of Service (QOS)

Partial Messages

Routing Considerations

Other Characteristics

Winsock Catalog

2. The Winsock Catalog Program Example

Winsock Catalog and Win64

Creating Sockets with WSASocket()

WSASocket() with WSAPROTOCOL_INFO Program Example

Summary

In this chapter, you have seen how Winsock fits into the overall system architecture and how various protocols plug into the system. In addition, you looked at the characteristics that protocols exhibit as well as how to programmatically enumerate the Winsock catalog to obtain this information. Finally, you have seen how to create a socket from an explicit provider using the WSASocket API.

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