Conclusion

Conclusion

In this chapter, we described the remaining (non-IP) protocol address families that Winsock supports and explained addressing attributes specific to each family. For each address family, we discussed how to create a socket and how to set up a socket address structure to begin communication over a protocol.

At this point in the book, we have completed our discussion of Winsock's basic communication techniques and have described all of the available address families that enable you to construct a simple Winsock application. Chapter 5 will start our discussion of advanced Winsock topics, and we will begin with advanced I/O methods that allow you to manage I/O in a Winsock application.