[ENet-discuss] ENet 2.0 most wanted features?

[Nuno Silva]

Also maybe some way to simulate different connection types so you could
test your game without having to have those connections, this is mostly
used in games but it would be very useful!


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Doug Warren <dwarren at thebigwave.net> wrote:

> Shared Peer ids: Unique IDs shared among all peers connected in a mesh
> connection.  This would enable you to route a message to another peer if
> there is no direct connection due to firewall rules.
>
> New packet type of best effort last message of a channel:  Any message for
> the channel would be unreliable but if we're sending a packet and the last
> acknowledged received sequence number is less than the last sent sequence
> number for that channel, a copy is sent anyway.  This could be used for
> frequently changing things like position but if there's room you'll get the
> most recent position anyway.
>
> Packet out of ordering metrics: Can be added now easily enough, I always
> like thinking in terms of the console TCRs of requiring 64k throughput, 10%
> packet loss, 2% packet out of order.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Lee Salzman <lsalzman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So, I'm just thinking in the back of my mind what sort of things would be
>> desired in a hypothetical version 2.0 of ENet that broke API compatibility
>> and so could do things that would otherwise not be possible in a 1.x
>> release.
>>
>> That doesn't mean that a 2.0 is in the near future, but I'd like to get a
>> dialogue going about it.
>>
>> Aside from IPv6 support, are there any other big things people would want
>> that are none-the-less realistic and not overly complicated?
>>
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