[ENet-discuss] Optimizing ENet Protocol ?

[Emmanuel Rivoire]

Hello Stefan,

1) maybe peerID could be used for anti packet spoofing, but as it's 
none essential, it'd be better to have it optionally there

2) dataLength can likely be set by the decompressor, it must know how 
much data it expanded ! ;-)

3) I rechecked and reliableSequenceNumber is actually set in 
enet_peer_setup_outgoing_command , I had found 1st a 
"reliableSequenceNumber = 0" but it wasn't the correct one... 
:-S   But I checked the reception code and couldn't figure out where 
the reliableSequenceNumber was used for unsequenced messages ; it may 
be easier to follow in the debugger once I'll have something running


At 17:41 24/05/2012, you wrote:
>Hello Emmanuel,
>
>Interesting thoughts! I'm not worried at all about the overhead in 
>ENet, but things like peerID have caught my attention earlier as I 
>didn't understand why it was there.
>I still don't understand why it's there as (like you said) we could 
>just map each Peer to the source address and be fine with it - but 
>maybe there's more to it than that that I haven't noticed yet.
>
>dataLenght I'm not so sure about - what if we compress the data? We 
>need to keep the datalength for the uncompressed size in ENet.
>
>Are you sure that reliableSequenceNumber always is 0?