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Dev48 · Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 6

Hi!

I am a very newby in PS2 development.
I know that PS2 can handle network game. But I would know how to program them.
1) Does PS2 use Peer to peer or CLient/server protocols?
2) Does PS2 use Sockets as a pC does?
3) Are there any tutorials about netword programming on PS2?

Thanks in advance!
Dev
PS : sorry for my poor english...

Drakonite · Site Admin Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 989

2) IIRC PS2IP uses bsd sockets or something like that (I'm not a networking guru, so only listen to that if you are and that still makes sense)

The rest is pretty much all up to you.
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Dev48 · Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 6

So we can do Peer to Peer and Client/Server on PS2 : what a great console!!!

Oobles · Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 11:54 pm Post subject:

Just to confirm Drakonite's rather vague response. ps2sdk includes a port of lwip (Light Weight IP stack) which is what is used by ps2link, etc. There is also DNS resolver and HTTP client file driver.

1) PS2IP uses a basic sockets interface with all the basic APIs implemented. There has been problems with select() in the past, but I believe that is fixed now.

2) Yes. It's sockets based.

3) Not much. You're best looking at the code included in ps2sdk. As it is socket based, you should also be able to refer to other documents on the net.

Oobles.

Dev48 · Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 6

So last question:
what do you advise me : peer to peer or client/server? What is the best solution?

blackdroid · Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 564 Location: Sweden

the best solution is the one suited for your needs, no go forth and code :)
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Dev48 · Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 6

Thanks for all your answer!!!

My needs is for a race car game.... So I don't know what to use... :(

J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

Old games like DOOM used peer to peer. You had a small number of identical (virtually) users exchanging small packets. Modern games are nearly always client/server to better handle the differences in systems and (particularly) the lag in communications across the net with larger packets.

If you have a simple head-to-head race game with a VERY small packet, I'd probably just go peer to peer. It's much simpler. If you're trying to link 30-odd people in a huge Indy F1 race, better go client/server.

apache37 · Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 76

Is dhcp working in the new ps2sdk setup?

Dev48 · Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 6

Thanks for all of your answers!!

blackdroid · Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 564 Location: Sweden

pixel · Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 791

Won't work.
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