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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>After an eNet client establishes a connection to an eNet
Host, the client is disconnected after approximately 30 seconds. We have
traced this on the host side to a call to <span style='background:yellow'>enet_peer_reset</span>
in the enet_protocol_check_timeouts(…) function:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font color=blue><span style='color:blue'>if</span></font> (outgoingCommand
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<font color=blue><span style='color:blue'>event</span></font> -> type =
ENET_EVENT_TYPE_DISCONNECT;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font color=blue><span style='color:blue'>event</span></font> -> peer =
peer;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<span style='background:yellow'>enet_peer_reset (peer);</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font color=blue><span style='color:blue'>return</span></font> 1;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In this case the roundTripTimeout equals the
roundTripTimeoutLimit of 16,000 ms (or 16 seconds). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have added a call from the client application to
enet_peer_ping(…) that is on a timer to fire every 2 seconds – but the
disconnect still occurs. The host runs a perpetual loop that calls
enet_host_service(…).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><font size=1
face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Would you have any
suggestions or recommendations?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>One thing I noticed from the Cube Legends source is that
they added a PING / PONG message so that whenever a <st1:place w:st="on">PING</st1:place>
message is received on the server, it immediately does an enet_peer_send of a
PONG message back to the client. Are there other and better ways to
handle “keep-alive” packets?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>-Doug<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Doug Kimzey<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Software Developer<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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