enet.host

Description

An ENet host for communicating with peers. On creation it will bind to a port on an address, unless otherwise specified, which will keep other applications from binding to the same port and address.

The only way to free the port is by garbage collecting the ENet host, which can be done like so:

local host = enet.host_create("*:6789")
host = nil
garbagecollect()

Functions

Function	Description
host:service	Wait for events, send and receive any ready packets.
host:check_events	Checks for any queued events and dispatches one if available.
host:connect	Connects a host to a remote host. Returns peer object associated with remote host.
host:flush	Sends any queued packets.
host:broadcast	Queues a packet to be sent to all connected peers.
host:channel_limit	Sets the maximum number of channels allowed.
host:bandwidth_limit	Sets the bandwidth limits of the host in bytes/sec.
host:socket_getaddress	Returns a string that describes the socket address of the given host.
host:total_sent_data	Returns the number of bytes that were sent through the given host.
host:total_received_data	Returns the number of bytes that were received by the given host.
host:service_time	Returns the timestamp of the last call to host:service() or host:flush().
host:peer_count	Returns the number of peers that are allocated for the given host.
host:get_peer	Returns the connected peer at the specified index (starting at 1).
host:__gc	Destroys the host, freeing any bound ports and addresses.

See Also

• lua-enet
• enet.event
• enet.peer