[ENet-discuss] ENet 2.0 most wanted features?

[Stefan Lundmark]

Not everyone uses Linux and I come from OpenTNL where this kind of 
simulation really is useful.

You can call it the OSs responsibility all you want, it doesn't really 
matter. Streaming is too high level for ENet too, yet it's requested.

On 2013-04-30 17:16, Shaun Reich wrote:
> packet loss simulation and latency are all something your OS (if it
> isn't completely shitty), should be able to do. in the case of windows
> you need to go through a lot of extra work to do it. in the case of
> linux it's 2 short commands. there's no point in duplicating and
> wasting effort on that, which is the job of the OS itself...
>
> as for ENET_PACKET_FLAG_SEMI_RELIABLE, i'm wondering in which cases
> one would actually want to use that?
>
> NAT hole punching is definitely not something not-so-difficult. And
> there are other libs out there that are meant for it that can be
> integrated into your network handling.
>
> "As a follow up I meant that it would allow us to simulate packet
> drops and packet sending speed. Also allowing to simulate a % for
> packet drop and packet sending through some parameter to the Host
> would be just as good if it's too complicated!"
>
> again, that's your operating system's job, not a job for a networking library.
>
>
>
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> Shaun Reich,
> KDE Software Developer (kde.org)
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