Thread: Socket question

Have you tried any of the sample code from the tutorials?
No you don't need an internet connection but you do need a network card.

Basically it's a stepwise process...
1) Get a socket handle with the socket() call.
2) Get your local IP address using one of the host lookup functions (eg. gethostbyname())
3) Set the desired port into the resulting sockaddr struct using htons(port).
4) Bind the socket using bind()
5) listen for connections with listen() or wait for news with recvfrom() (for udp)

You will definately find UDP communications a whole lot easier for your first project. Your best bet is to do the steps one at a time testing for success after each function call. Once the first is working, move on to the second and so on...

Hope that helps...

Originally Posted by Sipher

Thanks "CommonTater". My problem is that socket() always returns -1! I do have a network card so with what you said i can't see where's the problem. Maybe i'm passing wrongs parameters to the function? I do this:

Code:

sID = socket(AF_INET , SOCK_DGRAM, 0);

and "sID" is always -1!!!

If you're using SOCK_DGRAM the protocal (3rd parameter) should be set to IPPROTO_UDP (17), otherwise you may not be able to bind the socket to a port.

Originally Posted by Sipher

I think i found the problem. I didn't know i had to initialize winsock before using it!

Ok... one step closer ...

You need WSAStartup().
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