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Re: packet contatenation

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From: Joe Black
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:05
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Eugene Mayevski wrote:
> Hello!
> You wrote  on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:17:37 +0100:
> 
>  JB> I have a client/server set of apps, the client uses a TClientSocket and
>  JB> the server the TServerSocket, all works great data sent back and
>  JB> forward fine, apart from one or two places. The problem seems to be
>  JB> when I send several packets straight after each other, the packets are
>  JB> all sent within a thread that activates every 35 ms and it sends one
>  JB> packet at a time.
> 
> The problem is that TCP is not packet-oriented, but stream-oriented. If you
> call send() 2 times, this doesn't mean that there will be 2 TCP packets on
> the other end. There can be anything between 1 and 20 (or more) TCP packets.
> If you want message-based communication, you can use, for example,
> MsgConnect (http://www.eldos.com/msgconnect/)
> 
> With best regards,
> Eugene Mayevski
> 

Thanks Eugene,

I will have a look at the MsgConnect as you suggested, this app was 
meant to be a simple thing but the addition of sockets has baked my 
noodle a bit :-(.

Cheers Joe
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