On 2/7/07, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
By that design, I can get away with sending a small ping packet once every minute or two, and then batch the world changes out in sporadic large datagrams.
Ah, well then it all depends who's sending the "ping". If the client is sending the ping to the server then you can have the server respond to that ping with the data, using the same socket. If the server is sending the ping then you won't be able to get past NAT unless the client is responding to the pings regularly on the same socket, and the client would have had to initialize that socket. It would also have to be way more often than every minute or two for most routers. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
