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From: mkibler@eecs.wsu.edu (Michael K. Kibler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Dog question
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.163137.9480@eecs.wsu.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 91 16:31:37 GMT
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, WSU
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We have several 4D systems running dog. I have been monitoring
the broadcast packets from dog and out of curiosity wanted to know how
the program communicates information ( locations, missiles, etc. ).
It appears to set up a socket with a broadcast address and sends/receives
through the socket. Is there anything else special that it is doing?
Any way to improve performance? ( It would be nice if an implementation
without broadcasts could be devised that would not severly degrade the
network when more players enter the game. )


Thanks in advance.
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