Supporting protocols which aren't TCP based....

Hi there,

I'm looking into MIT Zephyr support into irssi, by writing a plugin
module, since my goal is to reduce the number of instant messaging
clients that I have to run.   

The problem I have is that Zephyr is datagram based, not TCP stream
based, and near as I can tell, the work of opening up a TCP stream is
done in the high-level code.   

What would be the easy way to bypass the net_connect code, so that it
necessary protocol exhcnages could be done in the low-level CHAT
protocol module.  There is still the concept of "connecting" to the
zephyr realm, so it makes sense to use /CONNECT to login to a Zephyr
server.  It just doesn't involve a TCP connection.

Thanks!!

						- Ted