Hello SmartServer Users,

The FPM User Guide explains read/write methods for the RS-232 and RS-485 ports, but I've heard a very reliable rumor that FPM Drivers can also be used for reading and writing to the Ethernet port (i.e. sockets).  My question is can FPM Drivers support sockets (or an equivalent)?  The socket.h library in the FPM eclipse SDK doesn't have the socket(), connect(), etc. functions I'm accustomed to, although I've found some interesting ones (socketRtn() from sockFunc.h perhaps?).  Anyway before I start trying to get a socket up and communicating I thought it would be a good idea to check in and ask:  does anyone know the preferred way to program sockets on the SmartServer?  Are there functions similar to rsXXX_open() for IP sockets?  Any documentation or examples would be greatly appreciated.

-MR

Hello SmartServer Users,

I got a TCP/IP socket going today (hooray!).  The functions I was searching for turned up here:

#include <arpa/inet.h> //For sockaddr_in and inet_addr()

#include <sockLib.h> //For socket(), connect(), send(), and recv()

If anyone knows a better way to use sockets with SmartServers I'd still love to hear about it.

-MR