[ENet-discuss] I am puzzled with the flow of send buffer

JiangHao jaxecn at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 00:39:09 PDT 2012


correct my last mail : Why the content  which is send to peer A
is broadcasted to all peers   .Why not only directly to send to the peer A.

2012/7/30 JiangHao <jaxecn at gmail.com>

> thanks for your reply .
>    my point is the same bufffers is send to the different address of the
> peers.because the function 'enet_socket_send' is called in a loop of the
> host's peers and the buffer argument of the function is allways
> 'host->buffers',
>    why the content  is send to all other peer  which is only send to peer A
>
>
> 2012/7/30 Lee Salzman <lsalzman at gmail.com>
>
>> The packet gets sent to the address of the peer, so it is thus received
>> by the remote host. The packet is tagged with the id of the destination
>> peer, so the remote host only has to index into its array of peers with
>> that id. After, it compares the address in the peer with the address of the
>> packet's sender to verify the packet came from the right source. There's no
>> real performance penalty for this.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:35 AM, JiangHao <jaxecn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  hello ,
>>>      I'm leaning the enet libaray,and i am puzzled with the flow of send
>>> buffer when i reading
>>> the implementation of enet_protocol_send_outgoing_commands,
>>>
>>>      here is: sentLength = enet_socket_send (host -> socket, &
>>> currentPeer -> address, host -> buffers, host -> bufferCount);
>>>       Is I made a mistake or you have it in the design?  will it send
>>> the same buffers to all  the peers of one host  and filtered by
>>> remote host when it has receved these buffers.?
>>>       the performance is not affected if  it is  send to all peers.isit?
>>>
>>>
>>>       forgive my poor english .and thanks for answer.
>>>
>>>
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