GameNetworkingSockets

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GameNetworkingSockets GameNetworkingSockets is a basic transport layer for games. The features are: Connection-oriented API (like TCP) ... but message-oriented (like UDP), not stream-oriented. Supports both reliable and unreliable message types Messages can be larger than underlying MTU. The protocol performs fragmentation, reassembly, and retransmission for reliable messages. A reliability layer significantly more sophisticated than a basic TCP-style sliding window. It is based on the "ack vector" model from DCCP (RFC 4340, section 11.4) and Google QUIC and discussed in the context of games by Glenn Fiedler. The basic idea is for the receiver to efficiently communicate to…

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