[ENet-discuss] Connectionless data sending

[Lee Salzman]

For this situation, just hoodwink the raw socket functions ENet provides
and use regular old UDP. That's what we do in Cube, and since we poll
the server every few seconds for info anyway that takes care of the
issue of lost packets (i.e. you simply don't have to care about them and
just collect whatever info you get back).

Lee

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:14:50AM +0200, Benny Kramek wrote:
> 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 :)
> 
> -- 
> Benny Kramek
>   http://benny.kramekweb.com
>   benny at kramekweb.com
> 
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