[ENet-discuss] A few questions about unreliable delivery

[Tom Spencer-Smith]

Thanks. So 0 flags means unreliable but sequenced.
If I send U traffic on its own channel without any R on that channel, using
0 flag, is it still sequenced?

Cheers


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Lee Salzman <lsalzman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. 0 flags means unreliable.
>
> 2. Unsequenced are both unreliable and unsequenced, so they can be
> discarded and come out of order.
>
> 3. Neither has duplicates, so you will only ever get a packet once or
> never.
>
> 4. Unreliable packets sent after a reliable packet stall on the reliable
> packet, whereas unsequenced won't stall.
>
>
> On 07/28/2014 06:27 AM, Tom Spencer-Smith wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm a little confused on how to get certain delivery characteristics for
>> unreliable packets.
>>
>> 1. By default (using 0 for the flags), U packets are delivered in order
>> (but with possible gaps in sequence)?
>>
>> 2. ENET_PACKET_FLAG_UNSEQUENCED delivers them potentially out-of-order,
>> i.e. discards nothing?
>>
>> 3. What about duplicates, for both cases above?
>>
>> 4. If R and U packets are sent on the same channel, do U packets stall on
>> earlier undelivered R packets? So most people would want to use different
>> channels for R and U?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
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