netcode.io VS wdt

yojimbo/ netcode/ reliable, all developped by Glenn Fidler, author of GafferOnGames

Man-in-the-middling the netcode. From what I can tell, this would work ... but the packets are encrypted. It appears the netcode is largely based on this library, that they sponsor. There appear to be some differences from the "standard" but there are too many similarities to not have a common ancestor. I got pretty far on this, just to at least verify there was encryption. Even if it is not encrypted, it appears to be a custom protocol.

I use netcode.io - if you have read gafferongames posts, this is made by the guy.

You may not be there yet with your developer skills but if you are curious you can have a look at the netcode source code. I'm not sure if they're still using it since the switch to Lumberyard and Amazon Services but it's a really good and strong codebase: https://github.com/networkprotocol/netcode

I found that there is a relatively new protocol called netcode.io that provides UDP-like connection between client-server.

If you want to learn more about networking for game in C++, Glenn Fiedler has great articles from the basics to advanced topics: https://www.gafferongames.com/ He also created a library for client-server networking: https://github.com/networkprotocol/netcode (He has a big name in networking, totally recommend reading his articles if you want to learn more about networking)

I like the way you're thinking here, I think the limitations you mentioned with gemini may stand... for me it's kind of like the limitations generally speaking with markdown. Doesn't leave much room for doing stuff like parsing the raw data when they aren't in a hierarchical structure with xpaths you can target and stuff like that, it just throws out so much baby with the bathwater that I'm ready to scream infanticide.

Any thoughts on fast experimental protocols like warp data transfer [1] or fast and secure protocol [2] ? I know they're not exactly the most open things or wellsupported in terms of what you're looking for but I've been really wondering when we're going to start seeing pressure to relieve network congestion using stuff like this.

[1] https://github.com/facebookarchive/wdt

That's great stuff, I wonder how it compares to wdt[0] when there's only one TCP path. This has been my go-to tool to transfer files on the network.

0: https://github.com/facebook/wdt

I guess? If you’re building parallel infrastructure (vlans are not enough obviously) just for running Aspera over it might not be the worst thing ever, but that’s an expensive way to live and that’s before you pay for the A$pera licenses. There are free and better behaved platforms out there like https://github.com/facebook/wdt if you don’t want other applications’ TCP sessions to time out while you’re trying to squeeze out the last half percent with Aspera.