Sorry for the amount of resends but somehow gmx's spam filter detected my own emails as spam. Because of this I didn't know that they were send. Roderick On Saturday 08 November 2003 21:55, Roderick Colenbrander wrote: > Hi, > > Here are some patches which improve winsock's ipx support. Using these > patches games C&C Tiberian Sun, Red Alert (v3.x) and Red Alert II work over > a lan. > > First patches 1 and 3 add a new ipx related header. Patch 1 is the new > header I made and patch 3 contains some extra structs submitted by vincent > beron. > > Patch 2 adds various missing pieces to the winsock code. For one of the new > pieces of code a new wineserver call was required. In short the problem is > that the way in which you can set the ipx packet type is different. > On linux you can change the ipx packet type by setting an attribute of the > linux ipx sockaddr structure. On windows it is changed using > (WS_)setsockopt. The attribute that exists in the linux sockaddr structure > doesn't exist on windows. > > In our winsock dll all winsock structures are in the end converted to their > linux equivalent. When we receive a request to change the ipx packet type > we only have access to the winsock structure and because of this we can't > change the packet type. (since it misses the attribute) To be able to get > and set the packet type it needs to be stored in the wineserver. (Mike > McCormack advised me this) > > ChangeLog: > - implement getsockopt/setsockopt's IPX_PTYPE, IPX_ADDRESS and > IPX_MAD_ADAPATER_NUM > > Roderick Colenbrander
