[ENet-discuss] Stronger UDP checksum?

Bruce Mitchener bruce at cubik.org
Tue Jun 7 21:20:02 PDT 2005


Bad/corrupt data shouldn't crash an application or server though.

  - Bruce

Lee Salzman wrote:
> Send me a patch for it, and I will make it a compile time option.
> 
> Kevin Wasserman wrote:
>> I’ve got a user who seems to occasionally (every
>> 5 minutes or so, which is frequently enough) transmit
>> a packet that becomes corrupted but apparently
>> passes the UDP checksum and then naturally
>> wreaks havok on my app. I was wondering if
>> anyone else had had a similar exerience and
>> thinking that I might add an option to enet to
>> provide a stronger checksum (e.g. CRC32) when
>> sending a packet. For reliable packets, particularly,
>> I think it makes sense to do it in enet rather than
>> at a higher level. Any thoughts?


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