[ENet-discuss] Enet Header size

[Lee Salzman]

This all depends on what is acceptable latency for you and how often you 
are sending packets. Packets are sent out when you call 
enet_host_service(), so schedule this according to your needs.

Lee

Peter Soxberger wrote:
> In what periods should enet_host_service() be called? I'm using a thread and alwas wait 2 milliseconds until I call enet_host_service(). Should I wait longer? What are your typical periods?
>
> Greets,
> Peter Soxberger
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>> Datum: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:11:06 -0800
>> Von: Lee Salzman <lsalzman1 at cox.net>
>> An: Discussion of the ENet library <enet-discuss at cubik.org>
>> Betreff: Re: [ENet-discuss] Enet Header size
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>> It collects packets in between calls to enet_host_service(), yes.
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>> Lee
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>> Peter Soxberger wrote:
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>>> Ok does this mean that ENet collects the small packets and send it as
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>> one big packet for saving overhead?
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>>> I worried that this isn't implented because I use a lot of packets with
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>> small data in them and this would produce a lot of unnecessary overhead.
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>>>> Datum: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:18:15 -0800
>>>> Von: Lee Salzman <lsalzman1 at cox.net>
>>>> An: Discussion of the ENet library <enet-discuss at cubik.org>
>>>> Betreff: Re: [ENet-discuss] Enet Header size
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>>>> The size of a header for an individual user packet WITHIN a protocol 
>>>> packet is about 6-8 bytes. Each protocol packet (which groups as many 
>>>> user packets as it can up to the MTU) has a header size of 8 bytes.
>>>>
>>>> Lee
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>>>> Peter Soxberger wrote:
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>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm currently improving my code that calculates the actual
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>> transferrate.
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>>>> Does anybody of you know, how much overhead I produce if I send a
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>> single
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>>>> packet? I know that there is the UDP Header which is 8 Byte big. But
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>> how
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>>>> much is used by ENet?
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>>>>> If I calculate the real size of a packet, is this correct:
>>>>>
>>>>> [UDP Header]+[ENet Headers]+[packet->dataLength] = Packet Size
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your help!
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