what happends to packet when they are received but not delt with..
what i mean is.. lets say i start up the server.. the client(s) then sends some packets we will say they are 32 bytes each...and 10 packets total.. do these packets get buffered or stacked untill i do something with them?
what happends if 2 clients send those same packets at the same time.. I am sure the packets will not be in any kind of order.. but are the packets sent intact? can i trust that if i read in 32 bytes that those 32 bytes are from one particular client and not mixed up with another clients packet.
now i know that when you send data there is more info added to packets that i send. at what point is this extra information stripped, what PB comand is stripping this information and leaving me with just the raw data to be pulled with receivenetworkdata().
is there a way to just look to see if data is ready to be pulled without pulling the data? if so then what do i need to do next to deal with this data.
can someone point me to an easy to understand site that explains this in plain english. most info i have been reading talks about blocking / nonblocking blah blah blah.. i still dont know how to impliment that stuff.