win32/linux ipx

Networking and Multiplayer Programming

Started by barazor February 21, 2002 10:44 PM

1 comment, last by barazor 22 years, 2 months ago

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February 21, 2002 10:44 PM

are there any specific libraries or sample code for ipx programming on these platforms? i havent had much luck finding any info on them, most source code i''ve found was written for dos and used a LOT of asm

nohbdy

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February 22, 2002 05:05 PM

..you''re probably not going to find anything much more recent than that... seeing as nobody uses IPX anymore

Why exactly would you want to use IPX anywho? Novell NetWare isnt much of a gaming platform and TCP and UDP are much easier to learn and work fine across a LAN

JonStelly

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February 22, 2002 08:51 PM

I''d agree, IPX / SPX is fading fast and has been for the last 3-4 years. If you must use IPX for some reason, you can use IPX with Winsock 2 and on unix I believe IPX sockets are just another protocol family.