Resend: Winsock ipx improvements

[Roderick Colenbrander]

Sorry for the amount of resends but somehow gmx's spam filter detected my own 
emails as spam. Because of this I didn't know that they were send.

Roderick

On Saturday 08 November 2003 21:55, Roderick Colenbrander wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here are some patches which improve winsock's ipx support. Using these
> patches games C&C Tiberian Sun, Red Alert (v3.x) and Red Alert II work over
> a lan.
>
> First patches 1 and 3 add a new ipx related header. Patch 1 is the new
> header I made and patch 3 contains some extra structs submitted by vincent
> beron.
>
> Patch 2 adds various missing pieces to the winsock code. For one of the new
> pieces of code a new wineserver call was required. In short the problem is
> that the way in which you can set the ipx packet type is different.
> On linux you can change the ipx packet type by setting an attribute of the
> linux ipx sockaddr structure. On windows it is changed using
> (WS_)setsockopt. The attribute that exists in the linux sockaddr structure
> doesn't exist on windows.
>
> In our winsock dll all winsock structures are in the end converted to their
> linux equivalent. When we receive a request to change the ipx packet type
> we only have access to the winsock structure and because of this we can't
> change the packet type. (since it misses the attribute) To be able to get
> and set the packet type it needs to be stored in the wineserver. (Mike
> McCormack advised me this)
>
> ChangeLog:
> - implement getsockopt/setsockopt's IPX_PTYPE, IPX_ADDRESS and
> IPX_MAD_ADAPATER_NUM
>
> Roderick Colenbrander