Semester Project (part 1)

1. Connecting and signing on

Locating a Robowar server
Connecting to a Robowar server
Signing on to the Robowar simulator

2. Locating a Robowar server

Server will respond to message to UDP port 4000
Client should broadcast Robowar "ping"
Wait for a reply
Extract source address (recvfrom) and use as address of server

3. Connecting to a server

Use the address from previous message as address of server
Establish TCP connection (connect) to port 4000

4. Signing on

Send a SIGNON message to the server (a sequence of bytes)
Format of message:

0 len Player name (len bytes)

Player name length (len) must be less than 16 bytes

5. SIGNON confirmation

Server will respond with SIGNON_ACK through TCP connection
Format of message:

`0`	`Player ID (32-bit integer)`

Last revised 28 October 2008