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Logic

Security Model Product Distribution Gateways Staff Login Stock Levels Shipping Addresses Agency Stores

PosGreen Engine This engine provides the bulk of the POS processing at checkouts. It can be used directly or via central servers as a remote service.

Contexts & Sessions

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Spill Database

Fieldpine Multicast Protocol

Fieldpine Applications use a multicast protocol to automatically discover and configure themselves in a store LAN environment. This allows a computer that joins the network to discover other peer systems on the same LAN. The multicast address used is an admin scoped multicast address.

Various structures are sent over this multicast channel. It is only control data not business data. It is not intended that client applications will directly use this protocol, it is documented for completeness purposes only.

All packets are sent as binary GNAP packets. Packet types can be identified by looking at the first 4 bytes of a packet

SRCH Packet

This packet is sent by a computer asking the other systems on the network to identify themselves. Programs that receive this packet should respond on the network unless they are in stealth mode.

Field NameField#Description
99 Ticker Holds a random value that has meaning only to the sender of the packet. This is typically used so that programs can detect that they have received their own transmitted SRCH packet
104SearchKeyA Physkey value to identify the senders request.
105Route

PROG Packet

This packet identifies a program that is running

Field NameField#Description
101 Responding Program Coded number indicating which program is technically responding:
  • 1. meshWin.dll
  • 2. Http.dll
102BuildDtDate/time this code version was built. Allows receiving programs to detect how old the program responding is
103ProcessIdCurrent ProcessId of responding program. It is possible that multiple copies of a program will respond from a single computer
104InstanceIdCurrent Process Instance Id
200SinAddrThis field is added by the receiver
201ReceiveDtDate/time this packet was received from the network
202 IP Address IP Address and Port of sending computer. This field is not transmitted by the sender, rather the receiver adds this information by observing the network address the packet arrived from

DBID Packet

This packet supplies overview information about the current database on a computer. If multiple databases are available, then multiple DBID packets will be sent.

Field NameField#Description
101 Responding Program See details in the PROG packet
102 BuildDt See details in the PROG packet
103 ProcessId See details in the PROG packet
104 InstanceId See details in the PROG packet
120 DatabaseId
121 Rank
122 Port
123 RmSystem

HOST Packet

Not documented at this stage

RMSY Packet

Not documented at this stage