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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Our server is fully asynchronous in C++ using overlapped I/O (IOCP) and only a few threads for socket I/O (4, generally). It easily supports > 4000 concurrent and active connections with the game logic written in managed code (C#) which we host using the CLR hosting API.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>We didn’t spend much time with the existing ENet server as it just didn’t fit with what we wanted. We just used it as a way to reverse engineer the protocol requirements.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Len<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><a href="http://www.serverframework.com">www.serverframework.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> ENet-discuss [mailto:enet-discuss-bounces@cubik.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Meir Yanovich<br><b>Sent:</b> 17 August 2016 09:54<br><b>To:</b> Discussion of the ENet library <enet-discuss@cubik.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ENet-discuss] Can i use other UDP server farmework like boost::asio or libuv and enet as client ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Len Holgate <br></span></b>Thanks! <br>can you please give more info ? <br>is the server thread based or event based ? <br>what is the limits of integrating or extending the enet server ?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Len Holgate <<a href="mailto:len.holgate@jetbyte.com" target="_blank">len.holgate@jetbyte.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>We built a Windows, IOCP based C++ server using the ENet protocol for a client and it’s been working well for around 9 years now. We have had to tweak things a little to get the scalability that they wanted and write it all from scratch but it’s not that complex once you understand how the protocol works.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Len</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.serverframework.com" target="_blank">www.serverframework.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> ENet-discuss [mailto:<a href="mailto:enet-discuss-bounces@cubik.org" target="_blank">enet-discuss-bounces@cubik.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ruud van Gaal<br><b>Sent:</b> 17 August 2016 09:29<br><b>To:</b> Discussion of the ENet library <<a href="mailto:enet-discuss@cubik.org" target="_blank">enet-discuss@cubik.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ENet-discuss] Can i use other UDP server farmework like boost::asio or libuv and enet as client ?</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>ENet uses a complicated protocol to do its communication, so to create a server in another framework would effectively mean reverse engineering ENet and typing your own code. It's not like its built on an existing standard protocol.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>So my guess would be to just use ENet where you want to use ENet. ;-)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Ruud<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Meir Yanovich <<a href="mailto:meiry242@gmail.com" target="_blank">meiry242@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hello all<br>As i understand from the documents it is best to use enet as the server as it know how to <br>Handle the peers and the UDP ordring and such ... <br>my question is can i implement the server in other c/c++ framework ? <br>is it recommended ? is it easily possible? <br>or the ENet server is strong enough to act as MMO server ? <br>Thanks !<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>ENet-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ENet-discuss@cubik.org" target="_blank">ENet-discuss@cubik.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.cubik.org/mailman/listinfo/enet-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.cubik.org/mailman/listinfo/enet-discuss</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>ENet-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ENet-discuss@cubik.org">ENet-discuss@cubik.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.cubik.org/mailman/listinfo/enet-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.cubik.org/mailman/listinfo/enet-discuss</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>