I am using the server-client model for communicating with a hardware board using socket programing.
I receive data from board using "read()" method of "NetworkStream" class which reads a buffer with specified maximum size and returns the length of valid data in buffer. I have considered the maximum size of buffer with a enough big number.
The board sends a set of messages every 100ms. Each message consists a 2-byte constant header and a variable number of bytes as its data after the header bytes.
The problem is that I do not receive the messages one by one! Instead, I receive a buffer may contains 2 or 3 messages or one message is scattered between two buffer.
Currently, I am using a DFA which gather the content of messages using the constant header bytes (We do not know the length of messages, we just know the header bytes) but the problem is that the data bytes may contains the header bytes randomly !!
Is there any efficient way to gather the bytes of each message from buffers using any specific stream or class? How can I overcome to this problem?!