Inter-MUD protocol
Intermud 2
Legacy compatibility
Documented current use
Legacy
A backward-compatible expansion of CD Intermud used by several LPC-derived mudlibs.
Protocol overview
- First seen
- 1990s
- Present-day status
- Legacy compatibility
- In use today?
- Yes, with documented current use.
- Legacy?
- Yes. It may still matter for compatibility or historical systems.
- Layer
- Inter-MUD protocol
- Transport
- Primarily UDP mesh; later TCP additions exist
- Research validated
Current use and fit
Historical deployments and subsets may remain, but I3 is the more significant surviving LPC router architecture.
Implementation essentials
- Implement the specific message subset required by the target network.
- Keep inter-MUD transport outside player-session code.
Compatibility and safety notes
- UDP is unreliable.
- Different mudlibs may implement only subsets.
Original specifications and sources
- MUD Standards preservation Preservation
Where an original site has disappeared, a preservation archive is linked and identified as such. MUDVerse does not claim authorship of the original protocol.