On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 01:53:52PM -0500, Alec Habig wrote: > James Cameron writes: > > > > Tedd Hadley and Heiko Wengler's amazing short packets code from 24th > > May 1993. ;-) > > Original motivation: Heiko was trying to play from the end of a > network connected by string, tin cans, and carrier pigeons from > rural Austria. Indeed. In my case, I was playing over 2400 baud modem running SLIP into a VAXstation. Short packets made all the difference. > short packets made enough of a difference that we could field a (semi) > competitive team from Europe in the INL for most of the seasons the INL > was a thing: the Eurotwinks. > > Our home games were great, because the NA based players had no idea how > to play with 300ms ping, but that was the way we played all the time. > Even for home games for most of the team :) Yes, I remember how players with low latency showed a different playing style and were still vulnerable to the attacks from players with high latency. > In related news, the network stack I stole from Heiko (and netrek) to > run the SNEWS supernova early warning system has also been showing its > age, for the same packet-length confusion reasons as started this > thread. We're redoing it all in python and kafka now. I'll contact you offlist about that. -- James Cameron https://quozl.linux.org.au/