[ENet-discuss] Enet Header size

[Lee Salzman]

It collects packets in between calls to enet_host_service(), yes.

Lee

Peter Soxberger wrote:
> Ok does this mean that ENet collects the small packets and send it as one big packet for saving overhead?
> I worried that this isn't implented because I use a lot of packets with small data in them and this would produce a lot of unnecessary overhead.
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>> Datum: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:18:15 -0800
>> Von: Lee Salzman <lsalzman1 at cox.net>
>> An: Discussion of the ENet library <enet-discuss at cubik.org>
>> Betreff: Re: [ENet-discuss] Enet Header size
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>> The size of a header for an individual user packet WITHIN a protocol 
>> packet is about 6-8 bytes. Each protocol packet (which groups as many 
>> user packets as it can up to the MTU) has a header size of 8 bytes.
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>> Lee
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>> Peter Soxberger wrote:
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>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I'm currently improving my code that calculates the actual transferrate.
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>> Does anybody of you know, how much overhead I produce if I send a single
>> packet? I know that there is the UDP Header which is 8 Byte big. But how
>> much is used by ENet?
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>>> If I calculate the real size of a packet, is this correct:
>>>
>>> [UDP Header]+[ENet Headers]+[packet->dataLength] = Packet Size
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help!
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>>>       
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