[ENet-discuss] ENet 2.0 most wanted features?

[Shaun Reich]

packet loss simulation and latency are all something your OS (if it
isn't completely shitty), should be able to do. in the case of windows
you need to go through a lot of extra work to do it. in the case of
linux it's 2 short commands. there's no point in duplicating and
wasting effort on that, which is the job of the OS itself...

as for ENET_PACKET_FLAG_SEMI_RELIABLE, i'm wondering in which cases
one would actually want to use that?

NAT hole punching is definitely not something not-so-difficult. And
there are other libs out there that are meant for it that can be
integrated into your network handling.

"As a follow up I meant that it would allow us to simulate packet
drops and packet sending speed. Also allowing to simulate a % for
packet drop and packet sending through some parameter to the Host
would be just as good if it's too complicated!"

again, that's your operating system's job, not a job for a networking library.



--
Shaun Reich,
KDE Software Developer (kde.org)