Legacy Document
Important: The information in this document is obsolete and should not be used for new development.
Important: The information in this document is obsolete and should not be used for new development.
Networking With Open Transport
This edition of Inside Macintosh: Networking With Open Transport describes the 1.3 release of Open Transport, a communications architecture for implementing network protocols and other communication systems on Mac OS computers. This architecture provides a set of programming interfaces for applications and other software.
You will need this document if you are a network applications designer accessing AppleTalk or TCP/IP networks, such as the Internet, at the transport level. This document will tell you how to use AppleTalk, TCP/IP, and serial network providers.
This document is about using network providers, and does not include information on how to implement Open Transport network protocol modules or device drivers. That information is covered in the documents provided with the Open Transport Protocol and Module SDKs. Nor does this document address kernel-level code-building. This document does not tell you how to write your own network provider using Open Transport; instead, this document is written for developers of applications that use network providers. For discussions of networking topics other than Open Transport, see Inside Macintosh: Networking; for information about programming MacTCP, see the documentation accompanying the MacTCP SDK.
New for Open Transport 1.3
This edition of Inside Macintosh: Networking With Open Transport provides new information about
- Getting started with Open Transport.
- Programming with Open Transport version 1.3
- The effect of Mac OS interrupt levels on program execution
- Specialized topics in data transfer techniques, especially storing non-contiguous data, using raw mode, and performing no-copy receives
- Single-link multihoming, a mechanism by which Open Transport can support multiple IP addresses on the same hardware interface
- New Open Transport utility functions, including list and string manipulation functions, timer functions, atomic operations, and memory allocation functions
- A wide variety of code samples, illustrating the use of various Open Transport features
Availability: Click below to obtain Inside Macintosh: Networking with OpenTransport in any of the following formats.
Book Contents
- Figures, Tables, and Listings
- Preface - About This Book
- For More Information
- Part 1 - Open Transport Essentials
- Chapter 1 - Introduction to Open Transport
- Chapter 2 - Getting Started With Open Transport
- Chapter 3 - Providers
- Chapter 4 - Endpoints
- Chapter 5 - Programming With Open Transport
- Chapter 6 - Mappers
- Chapter 7 - Option Management
- Chapter 8 - Ports
- Chapter 9 - Utilities
- Chapter 10 - Advanced Topics
- Chapter 11 - TCP/IP Services
- Chapter 12 - Introduction to AppleTalk
- Chapter 13 - AppleTalk Addressing
- Chapter 14 - AppleTalk Service Providers
- Chapter 15 - Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP)
- Chapter 16 - AppleTalk Data Stream Protocol (ADSP)
- Chapter 17 - AppleTalk Transaction Protocol (ATP)
- Chapter 18 - Printer Access Protocol (PAP)
- Chapter 19 - Serial Endpoint Providers
- Part 2 - Open Transport Reference
- Chapter 20 - Initializing and Closing Open Transport Reference
- Chapter 21 - Providers Reference
- Chapter 22 - Endpoints Reference
- Chapter 23 - Programming With Open Transport Reference
- Chapter 24 - Mappers Reference
- Chapter 25 - Option Management Reference
- Chapter 26 - Ports Reference
- Chapter 27 - Utilities Reference
- Chapter 28 - Advanced Topics Reference
- Chapter 29 - TCP/IP Services Reference
- Chapter 30 - AppleTalk Reference
- Chapter 31 - Serial Endpoint Reference
- Appendix A - Open Transport and XTI
- Appendix B - Result Codes
- Appendix C - Special Functions
- Appendix D - XTI Option Summary
- Glossary
