Looking for a good programming tutorial on AmiTCP

[mousehouse]

I'm looking for a good tutorial on how AmiTCP is built / e.g. how TCP/IP networking on the Amiga works. I have some basic knowledge on Amiga OS internals but no view on the "big picture".

To be more precise,

- Is the network card (NIC) attached to the OS by a "*.device"? Is that all there is needed to be able to use a card from the OS? Or are additional libraries needed?

- Is AmiTCP or any competing TCP/IP solution available as a single "*.library" or several libraries? How are there tied to the device?

Any pointers/guides/explanations/tutorials greatly appreciated!

edit: I'm looking for info on Amiga OS <= 3.9

[motorollin]

- Is the network card (NIC) attached to the OS by a "*.device"? Is that all there is needed to be able to use a card from the OS? Or are additional libraries needed?

You need AmiTCP itself of course, and then the .device file for the card. The .device is configured as the interface in AmiTCP.

- Is AmiTCP or any competing TCP/IP solution available as a single "*.library" or several libraries? How are there tied to the device?

I don't know whether this is what you're looking for:

http://aminet.net/package/comm/tcp/AmiTCP-api-22

Any pointers/guides/explanations/tutorials greatly appreciated!

AFAIK the interface to the TCP/IP stack is exposed as bsdsocket.library, so you might benefit from researching the functions of that library.

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moto