jangocheng / ether.network

Simple and fast C# networking library. Compatible with .NET Standard 1.3 and 2.0

Ether.Network is a basic library to make quickly a simple server or client using sockets.

This library is coded with C# using .NET Core framework to target Windows and Linux operating systems.

Framework support

• .NET Core 1.0 (netstandard1.3)
• .NET Core 2.0 (netstandard2.0)
• .NET Framework 4.5
• .NET Framework 4.6

Features

Server

• Client management
• Broadcast packets to all connected users or a list of connected users.
• Scalable configuration
  • Maximum of connected users
  • Bytes allocated per users

Client

• Connect to a TCP server
• Disconnect from a server
• Send packets
• Receieve packets
• Scalable configuration
  • Bytes allocated per users

Packets

• Create packet streams
• Read packet streams
• Create your own packet processor

How to install

Create a .NETCore project and add the nuget package: Ether.Network or you can do it manually in you NuGet console package manager :

$> Install-Package Ether.Network