Hi there, I wanted to know if it's safe to increase ENET_PEER_PING_INTERVAL, which determines how often a ping is sent
Background: I'm using e-net for reliable data transfer only (no unreliable packets). I noticed it's quite "chatty" - sending a ping every 100ms (ENET_PEER_PING_INTERVAL). I wanted to reduce this chattiness, as I'm not sure I need it. I'm guessing that it's chatty a) to act as a keepalive to make routers keep forwarding packers and/or b) to update info about metrics e.g. RTT. So I increased ENET_PEER_PING_INTERVAL to 5000 and it works perfectly. I even tried 20000 and it still works (though I think this is too high as we run the danger of aggresive firewall/routers thinking the "connection" is dead). My question is this: is there any other unintended consequences of increasing ENET_PEER_PING_INTERVAL to, say, 5000? It's only used in the code once, for determining when to ping, but I wondered if other things might rely on that hard coded value. E.g., will peers "time-out" too regulalry now? Will it break some of the "latency" metrics e-net gathers? I can't see any problems, but I want to be sure. Regards, John Wood
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