Can anyone point me in the direction of a library that provides
very very lightweight (minimum overhead) asynchronous i/o
routines for - shopping list
1. sending and receiving IPv4 / IPv6 packets,
2. sending receiving ICMP and
3, handling incoming outgoing TCP connections and
4. handling SCTP connections.
Secondingly I am in the market for a library that handles the
sending and receiving of straight ethernet packets. Also doing
ARP / NDP too.
Rules of the beauty contest: Some abstraction of asynchronous i/o
with asynchronous events, but the main priority is being very
very lean and low-level, with top time-performance. If it comes
to a beauty contest, this judge I would prefer something C-style
as I don't speak C++, have yet to drink the mindless class
bullshit koolaid. Since my background is VAX/VMS asynchronous io
an asynchronous model with optional callbacks as in VMS or Win NT
events will win the beauty parade. Operating systems? Cross-o/s
portability- unsure. Not interested in solutions that are
synchronous-io-only and so require your code to be split up into
multiple threads just to get around the problems caused by
synchronous (‘blocking’ some call it) io calls. Requiring threads
is a rule-out / show stopper unless I could easily hide such a
thing, but that doesn't sound feasible.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
