Mirage Source

Well... while making MSECPP I'm having a little bit of problems with this. The Nagle algorithm is used by us, even if we don't realize. It's an algorithm at WinSocket that... well, just read this:
http://www.port80software.com/200ok/arc ... 1/317.aspx
I saw that in VBGore(http://www.vbgore.com/Nagle_Algorithm), Spodi removed it. But I really don't realize why exactly.
My real problem is that when I send 2 packets too much fast, they are just not received in the correct order... And I want to fix this chit xD

EDIT:
Btw, I think Verrigan fixed that by first sending the hole packetsize before anything, then reading that amount of data. Hummm, will that really work?

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If you're packets are arriving out-of-order, you're not using a TCP connection.

When Naggling, your computer will wait to send any packets until there is enough data to send. Turn it off, it will send immediately, even for small packets.

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I am using TCP, but somehow they are not. That's reeeealy weird.
And the question was: Should a Mirage game use Nagle's algorithm or not?

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if it fixes it it would make sense right?

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Impossible. If you are dropping or receiving messages out of order in TCP, your implementation is flawed.

As for Nagling, it is nothing more than a buffer for queueing data to send. It will increase latency but also decrease bandwidth since it results in less headers (which is 40 bytes for TCP/IPv4). Ideally you want to create your own buffering. Have every "send" to a user queue the message instead of sending it to Winsock. Then define your own way of deciding when to send. You can do it once per server tick, once every X ms, etc. vbGORE uses a combination of a maximum queue time combined with message priorities to decide when to send. A message will always be sent in <= its maximum defined time, or if the buffer fills.

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Fixed it. It was really a bad implementation, but now this damn code is giving me memory errors ><
I'll just finish translating everything then I'll release it to see if anybody can fix it.

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