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[nwongfeiying]

I'm working on creating a server with multiple clients and I've been presented with two methods to do this. Which one is better?

1. multiple threads
2. ioctlsocket

I have an idea of how to do it, but I'm not entirely sure. Someone shed some light?

[oib111]

I would use multiple threads for simplicity.

[nwongfeiying]

How would you use the multiple threads? Would you use a thread to loop accept or would you create a thread for each client (this could lead to problems as state by blankrider if there's a lot of clients)?

[Slugsnack]

OOP

[Flyte]

Here is a great reference for all things winsock: http://tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/

There are two primary methods to do what you want. It's based on either of the following functions:
accept() - http://tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/examples/basics/threaded-server.html
select() - http://tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/examples/basics/select-server.html

With the former being easier, and the latter being more effective if you expect a larger workload.

[Jani]

[nwongfeiying]

Can I have code snippet anyone?

[sloppy]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms738545

[slippppppppp]

Look, setup the server like a regular server, but for multi clients this is what you want to do. in the Listen part, you wanna make it keep looping without stopping. Then everytime a client connects, push the socket into a vector, and create a thread to recieve every packet for only that socket. Then if you want to just send a packet to one socket, access the vector, or send the packet to every client by accessing the vector.

[Flyte]

[nwongfeiying]

[Kerelmans]

What language? If it's .net then you better use a TcpListener and make a thread for each new client connection. Then store them into a class / list you you can handle them easily.

-Kerelmans