[ENet-discuss] Connectionless data sending

[Benny Kramek]

Hi
I'm using enet in an open source 3d multiplayer arcade car game, called 
DIE http://die.sf.net
So far it's working really great, thanks for such a great library! :)

I'm trying to add support for querying game servers, to get information 
about the server, like current level, number of players, etc...

The problem is that it seems that I need to establish a connection 
between the server and the querying peer. It seems a little bit 
overkill: establishing the connection sending a packet, waiting for a 
packet, and then disconnecting. For this situation I think it would be 
enough to just have the requesting peer send an unreliable udp packet, 
and then wait to recieve a udp packet back as a reply.

I really don't know much about network programming, so I could be 
totally missing something :|

Any help appreciated, and thanks again for enet. It truly is a wonderful 
lib. I've gotten multiplayer working faster than I expected :)

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Benny Kramek
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