Re: How to start with Ethernet communication ?

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:24

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Ori wrote:

>Hi all, I need to write a simple application that send a message
>through Ethernet and get response, I have no idea how to start 

You would probably want to use TCP/IP for the communication.
That is handled by Sockets.

In Windows, this is known as WinSock (winsock2.h)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winsock/winsock/about_winsock.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winsock/winsock/winsock_reference.asp

Depending on your compiler version, you could use 3rd party libs like
ICS or INDY9.50 (snapshot).
http://www.indyproject.org/

Issues on these items are the topic of
borland.cppbuilder.internet.socket
See you there.

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