I’m doing a project where I must write a network library for a device connected to a Windows machine. The complication comes in that I may only communicate with the device using ethernet frames. So there is no TCP/UDP/IP at all. I don’t think the bind/listen/accept approach can be applied here, but maybe I am wrong. Also, there is no routing or switching involved.
I have a few questions. How do I use a socket to communicate with this device? Does winsock have any support for just frames? I haven’t been able to find many resources on this. Does anyone have any ideas about how I should proceed?
Is using sockets even a good idea or can I just send out the information with the appropriate headers?
Use WinPCap, it has an an API to send and listen to raw data.
You can build your communicate layer with it.