Getting started in server emulations? (login server)

[Grab]

Hey guys!


I want to start work on wow server emulations because i will learn more about socket's and servers.
My C++ known is okay i understand c++ and i really now the basics and winapi stuff. (also directx programming, winsocks, mysql)
So now i want to start code on a simple login server, it is my first big think i want to do.

So i want to ask where i should start with it?
What i need and how i should begin?

[stoneharry]

ArcEmu documents the logon GRUNT protocol pretty well:

Logon Process - ArcEmu-Wiki

TrinityCore contains much better code overall though, just doesn't document it using a nice graph. TrinityCore Home - TrinityCore - KPsN Collaboration Platform