Network Identification/Administration/Flow Control/Error pattern in C

Hi

I have a project to connect several control boxes with a TCP based
network. The TCP/IP stacks is available.

I would like to know if there are some design patterns in "C", which
deal with the identification of other clients in a TCP Network( such as
broadcasting every several secondes), establishment of link and flow
control/Error control ( on application layer, not on TCP layer)

Thanks in advance

Steven

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> Hi
>
> I have a project to connect several control boxes with a TCP based
> network. The TCP/IP stacks is available.
>
> I would like to know if there are some design patterns in "C", which
> deal with the identification of other clients in a TCP Network( such as
> broadcasting every several secondes), establishment of link and flow
> control/Error control ( on application layer, not on TCP layer)

SNMP is the most common protocol used to manage networks but it is not
trivial to use. Is that perhaps what you need?

Robert

>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Steven
>

> SNMP is the most common protocol used to manage networks but it is not
> trivial to use. Is that perhaps what you need?

Thanks for the advice. What I would like to have is on the app layer,
some kind of control mechanism above communication protocol, just like
try 3 times after failure, then report error to user ...

Steven

Steven P wrote:
>
>> SNMP is the most common protocol used to manage networks but it is not
>> trivial to use. Is that perhaps what you need?
>
> Thanks for the advice. What I would like to have is on the app layer,
> some kind of control mechanism above communication protocol, just like
> try 3 times after failure, then report error to user ...
>
> Steven
>
Well, TCP does that kind of thing at the transport layer and reports
errors to the application. But if you want anything to manage at a
higher level, then all your applications have to subscribe to it. Ugh!

Robert