[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Extended connect dialog (PR#977)

["imbaczek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <imbaczek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=977 >

On 04-01-22 you wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 04:28:33AM -0800, imbaczek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> On 04-01-19 you wrote:
>> 
>> >> - Why do the packets you introduce require explicit (non-delta)
>> >> handling?  Raimar?
>> 
>> > Technically there is no need to non-delta on any packet. It was added
>> > for the first packets (connect req and the reply) to allow interaction
>> > with old system. This is now obsolete since we renumbered the packets
>> > anyway.
>> 
>> > So there is now a reason why the non-delta should stay in place (to
>> > allow interaction with other delta systems) there is no need to add
>> > more non-delta packets.
>> 
>> One good reason is traffic shaping,

> Please explain in more detail. What code shapes what traffic at what
> level?

There are traffic shapers that analyze connections and adjust
bandwidth depending on few first packets transmitted. Now if those
packets are compressed, chances are they'll be very different among
games -- something that a program can't know.

http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/
http://lartc.org/

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