GNet was designed so that most of the implementation is hidden from the programmer. You should not have to include any network header files other than gnet.h.

By convention, integers are usually transfered in big-endian, or network-byte, order. GLib has conversion functions for shorts and ints: g_ntohs (network-to-host short), g_htons (host-to network short), g_ntohl (network-to-host long), and g_htonl (host-to-network long).