Developing applications over IPX/SPX using TLI

SCO IPX/SPX programming issues

Developers working on applications which use services offered through SCO IPX/SPX should understand certain characteristics common to NetWare networks:

network byte order
IPX addresses
socket numbers
object types

A sample program is provided to illustrate these ideas. The file /usr/src/cmd/tispx/tispx.c contains source for a sample client/server program, tispx. This program shows how to use the data structures and function calls to communicate over the IPX and SPX protocols.

tispx can be run as either a sender or a receiver of data, using either IPX or SPX as the underlying protocol. The sending instance of tispx sends a specified number of packets to the receiver, and the receiving instance reports the receipt of the packets. (In the case of the connection-based SPX protocol, the receiver acknowledges receipt of the packets to the sender, and the sender reports the receipt of the acknowledgement.)

For a list of command-line options, run tispx -?. For further details, examine the source provided.