[glob2-devel] UDP networking library.

[Matthew Marshall]

I've seen some disscussion on rewriting (er, refactorying :-) the networking.  
Has using an already made library been considered?  In particular I'm 
thinking of RakNet.  It's a small C++ UDP networking library designed for use 
in games.  It provides stuff like secure connections, reliable, ordered, or 
sequenced packets (in multiple channels,) and built-in VoIP (using speex, and 
it even works in Windows!)  It also provides some stuff like a bit packing 
class and some statistics gathering.  

The website also talks about automatic 'routing and multicasting via a minimum 
spanning tree,' but I haven't looked into that yet.  (I've actually only used 
a python wrapper, which works pretty well.)

It still would have the same problem of UDP NAT punch-through not working with 
all NATs, but AFAIK, most consumer routers have a 'gaming mode' setting that 
is set by default.  Most kids playing games will have already figured this 
out.

I just thought it was worth mentioning...

MWM