[ENet-discuss] Congestion Avoidance and Control

[Aaron Boxer]

Great. This sounds like the perfect library for my application.

I am streaming currency rates using TCP at the moment; the client is at 
an arbitrary
IP address on the internet.  To maintain "real time" streaming, the 
packet size is small,
so the TCP header size / packet size is quite large. The connection must 
be reliable.

It looks like ENet would give me a better header/payload ratio.

Thanks!

Aaron

Lee Salzman wrote:
> The library was developed and tuned for 56K modem usage, perhaps which is
> sort of a joke in this day and age. :)
>
> There is no particular roadmap for new features. The library has just 
> grown stuff
> as Sauerbraten has needed the features. Thus, it tends to be rather 
> stable over
> time, and it's even pretty safe to fork the code or do whatever with 
> it rather than
> treat it as a normal library because of that.
>
> Lee
>
> Aaron Boxer wrote:
>> Thanks.  How much testing has been done under high packet loss?
>>
>> Also, in general, what are the known issues with the library?
>>
>> Is there a roadmap for new features?
>>
>>
>> Thanks again
>>
>>
>>
>> Lee Salzman wrote:
>>> It uses pings or reliable packets to measure the mean round trip 
>>> time for the connection.
>>> Any excessive deviation from this causes a throttle to oscillate up 
>>> or down, which regulates
>>> how often ENet will drop unreliable packets to reduce bandwidth usage.
>>>
>>> Lee
>>>
>
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