[ENet-discuss] Death by a thousand cuts

Adam D. Moss adam at gimp.org
Sun Mar 26 00:27:54 PST 2006


Lee Salzman wrote:
> In the process of this, I also cut out certain fields of the header that 
> were redundant. But to prevent packets from being more prone to 
> corruption from that, I added in a cheap CRC32 checksum (enabled by 
> configure option), which should actually make packets less so. I know 
> that will make some users happy.

Does that imply that in the current ENet, packets may undetectedly
arrive corrupted?  I don't remember the docs making that clear.
(It wouldn't be a big problem as the app can always do its own
CRC32/ADLER32/whatever and should be written defensively anyway,
but...)

Ta,
--adam


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