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LiteNetLib4Mirror Transport

LiteNetLib based transport for Mirror.

Usage

Download the unity package from Releases and import it to your project (it does not contain Mirror)
Put LiteNetLib4MirrorTransport component on gameobject with NetworkManager and assign it there
(Optional) Make your NetworkManager derrive from LiteNetLib4MirrorNetworkManager and use optional overloads from it

Features

UDP
Built-in Network Discovery and UPnP
Fully managed code
Small CPU and RAM usage
Small packet size overhead ( 1 byte for unreliable, 3 bytes for reliable packets )
Different send mechanics
Reliable with order
Reliable without order
Ordered but unreliable with duplication prevention
Simple UDP packets without order and reliability
Automatic small packets merging
Automatic fragmentation of reliable packets
Automatic MTU detection
NTP time requests
Packet loss and latency simulation
IPv6 support (dual mode)
Connection statisitcs (need DEBUG or STATS_ENABLED flag)
Multicasting (for discovering hosts in local network)

IL2CPP Warning!

With IL2CPP, IPv6 is only supported on Unity 2018.3.6f1 and later because of this:
Unity ChangeLog

IL2CPP: Added protocol support for IPv6 on Windows. (1099133)

IL2CPP: Correctly indicate that IPv6 is not supported on non-IPv6 platforms. (1108823)

Also, socket Reuse Address option isn't available in IL2CPP.

Credits

RevenantX - for LiteNetLib
vis2k & Paul - for Mirror
Coburn - for Ignorance which i've used as an example
Dankrushen - for helping me find one small mistake which i couldn't find for two days
Lucas Ontivero - for Open.Nat, used for UPnP
shiena - for NetworkDiscoveryHUD

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