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This will allow you to communicate with programs that encapsulate Xbox packets via UDP, such as emulators.

We need to be able to communicate with Xbox consoles via npcap/pcap.

We need the server portion working.

Basically:

• Clients must be able to connect to a server
• Clients must be able to chat on the server
• Clients must be able to send UDP packets to the server

We should have a GUI frontend for xlan. This is intended for most users and should be simple to set up.

You should be able to do the following in it:

• Send/receive Xbox system link packets
• Join/Host servers
• Chat
• Private message
• Change your name
• Kick (if you have permission)

It should also support a configuration file.

We should have a fully-functional command-line portion for xlan.

Some may wonder why this is necessary, but this can be useful for remotely hosting servers. Given that xemu is becoming more viable for playing games, we could, in theory, use this for hosting actual dedicated servers. It even supports using encapsulation rather than having to use a physical NIC.

This should allow you to do everything the Qt version does except configuration files. Instead, it should use command-line arguments.

TCP should be used for handling chat, joining/leaving, etc.

UDP should be ONLY used for sending system link packets and maybe ping packets.

TCP can be used for sending system link packets, but since the Xbox system link was intended to be transmitted across UDP, most Xbox games probably won't actually care about packets being received out-of-order, so the added overhead of ensuring this is most likely useless, at best, while at worst, it will cause other things to take longer to be sent.