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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: UDP networking with Ada
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 21:46:13 -0600
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"Peter C. Chapin" <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu> wrote in message 
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>I have an interest in doing some network programming in Ada using UDP. I 
>assumed I could use GNAT.Sockets but in reading the specification of that 
>package it appears that it only supports TCP. I browsed around the various 
>other GNAT packages but I didn't see anything for UDP and now I'm wondering 
>what my options are.

NCSockets has a "datagram" type (which uses UDP). I don't know how 
well-tested it is, I think I used it once for some DNS experiments (but I'm 
sure that the TCP code has been tested much more).

NCSockets is a descendant of Claw.Sockets; there are of course Windows 
versions and there is an unfinished 64-bit Linux version (started by Tero 
K.) that will get a lot more work in the next few weeks as I'll be using it 
to port Ada-Auth's server to a new Linux box.

                                           Randy.