[prog] [C] network programming

[Cliff Crawford]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 07:40:22AM +1000, Shuying wrote:
> [snip]
>     if((bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *) &host, sizeof(host))) < 0) {
>         perror("bind");
>         close(sockfd);
>         return(-1);
>     }
>
>     while(1){
>             if((pktlen = recvfrom(sockfd, buf, BUFLEN, 0, (struct sockaddr *)&mips, &addrlen))> -1){
>                     printf("command is %d\n", ((pkt_t *)(&buf))->hdr);
>                     switch(ntohs(((pkt_t *)(&buf))->hdr)){
> 	 	      ...
>             }
>             sendto(sockfd, (pkt_t *) &pkt, sizeof(pkt), 0, (struct sockaddr *)&host, sizeof(host)) ;
>     }
> 
> 
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong?

It looks like you're missing calls to listen() and accept().  IIRC
(been a while since I've played with sockets :), you should be doing
something like the following:

listen(sockfd, blah, blah);
while(1) {
        accept(sockfd, ...);
        /* now you can call recv(), send(), etc. on the socket */
}


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