Gnet is a simple network library. It is written in C, object-oriented, and built upon GLib. It is intended to be small, fast, easy-to-use, and easy to port. GNet Features: * TCP "client" and "server" sockets * UDP and IP Multicast sockets * High-level TCP connection and server objects * Asynchronous socket IO * Internet address abstraction * Asynchronous DNS lookup * IPv4 and IPv6 support * Byte packing and unpacking * URI parsing * SHA and MD5 hashes * Base64 encoding and decoding * SOCKS support The official IRC channel of the GNet projects is #gnet on irc.gnome.org