Frequently Asked Questions¶
API/Design¶
Why have a separate engine for server and client? Surely traffic could be differentiated as much as it needs to be internally in one engine?
The traffic cannot be differentiated for gQUIC versions Q046 and Q050. This is because in these versions, the server never includes a connection ID into the packets it sends to the client. To have more than one connection, then, the client must open a socket per connection: otherwise, the engine would not be able to dispatch incoming packets to correct connections.
To aid development, there is a LSQUIC_FORCED_TCID0_VERSIONS
that
specifies the list of versions with 0-sized connections. (If you, for
example, want to turn them off.)
Once gQUIC becomes deprecated in the future, there will remain no technical
reason why a single engine instance could not be used both for client and
server connections. It will be just work. For example, the single
engine settings lsquic_engine_settings
will have to be separated
into client and server settings, as the two usually do need to have
separate settings.