Network Protocol

This page documents the types of messages that the client and server can exchange. For the actual network connection see wiki/Network and for the encoding and compression of the messages see wiki/PacketEncoding.

• General packets that flow in both direction:

Packet Type	Arguments	Purpose	Actions Required
ping	time to be echoed back	monitor connection state, collect latency statistics	The receiver must send a ping-echo back
ping-echo	echoed time, load average, measured latency	response to ping, collect latency statistics
sound-data	sound buffers and associated metadata	forward sound data	the receiver should queue the sound buffer, it may drop them if desired - if so, it should tell the other end to stop sending