[DGD] Network Package for DGD 1.2 released

[Michael Bergbauer]

Hi everyone

Finally I managed to do all the tests I could think of to eliminate 
hopefully most of the bugs in the Network Package for DGD 1.2.

It's availabe as a patch for DGD 1.2p3  and DGD 1.2.58 at 
ftp://noname.franken.de/pub/dgd

I'm very sorry, but all I have here are some linux machines. I only was 
able to create the patch for unix platforms so far.

It supports
-opening TCP sockets in LISTEN state (listening port)
-connect TCP sockets to other servers
-two TCP modes (telnet/binary)
-UDP sockets

All network output operations can be used in atomic functions, and hence 
can be undone. Each of these sockets is bound to one LPC object, and UDP 
connections are idependant from TCP connections.

To use it, simply patch your driver, and recompile it, with 
NETWORK_PACKAGE defined. This will disable parts of the original network 
code, and activates the network code.

On startup of the patched mudlib, a telnet port is opened on port 6047, 
and to distinguish between the two modes, a preprocessor-define for 
__NETWORK_PACKAGE__ is set for the lpc compiler in DGD. 

This Version of the network package is coded completly from scratch 
though I used the Network Package for DGD 1.1, which was created and 
maintained by Richard Braakman, Erwin Harte and Neil McBride. Thanks for 
your work, I wouldn't have succeeded without it. 

Any questions, suggestions, bug fixed and bug reports are welcome, 
(please send them to dgd-network at noname.franken.de) and if someone 
wants to add support for the other platsforms, please contact me. It 
shouldn't be hard if you have some knowledge about TCP/IP network 
programming, but without being able to test it, I can't do it myself.


-- 
Michael Bergbauer <michael at noname.franken.de>
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