zpl-c/enet

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1081 stars · 92 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A fork of the ENet reliable UDP networking library written in pure C, distributed as a single header. It adds IPv6 support, monotonic time, and code cleanup while providing optional reliable, in-order packet delivery and fragmentation over UDP.

Use cases

• add reliable UDP networking to a C or C++ game
• send packets with reliable in-order delivery over UDP
• single-header networking library for a multiplayer game
• IPv6 support for ENet-based networking
• lightweight embeddable network communication layer
• fragment large packets over UDP connections

When to choose

• you want a thin, portable, easily embeddable UDP layer with optional reliability
• you need IPv6 support or single-header distribution that upstream ENet lacks
• you're building real-time multiplayer games or low-latency communication in C/C++

When to avoid

• you need higher-level features like authentication, encryption, lobbying, or server discovery
• you prefer the original upstream ENet with its long-term stability
• you need TCP-style streaming or HTTP-level networking

Facets

library · maturity active

networking p2p networking cross-platform cpp c udp reliable-udp header-only single-header ipv6 gamedev enet-fork lightweight game-development real-time

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