[Noffle-devel] Re: [Noffle-users] how to make noffle NOT switch to offline mode

[Jim H. <jim...@ac...>]

On 27-Jan-2003 Miernik wrote:
> That is not the timeout of noffle, but a 10 second receive timeout at
> the upstream server, which I can't change. 

Oh, I see. I misunderstood you. Sorry.

>> You can't force it not to switch to offline mode. Noffle take the view that
>> if the connection failed, something is pretty seriously wrong with your
>> network connection or the server, and it should take action to ensure it
>> doesn't keep pointlessly retrying. So it resets itself back to a mode
>> where user action is required to initiate more network activity.
> 
> But here the _only_ thing that was wrong, was that the upstream server
> disconnected me because of it's 10 second receive timeout.  There is
> nothing more wrong. 
> 
> Retrying isn't pointless, because at the next, or second next try it
> will manage to transmitt packets to the upstream server without a 10
> second gap. The timeout here happens only during the initial connection,
> after that I can have gaps of more than 10 seconds without the upstream
> server timeouting.

That makes sense. I think what we need here is for Noffle to have a mechanism
for automatically retrying operations that fail due to timeout or connection
lost issues up to some configurable number of times before deciding to sound
the alarms. I'll add to the TODO....

>> I'll put it on the TODO list, but it's not that easy to do given Noffle's
>> present structure.

*Cough* As Mirko noted, when I got to the TODO list, exactly that item was
already there.

I'm not going to start handing round TODO items to folk, but if anybody feels
like having a crack at some of them, patches are always welcome. :-) A post 
stating intent to the noffle-devel list might be a good idea first, to
prevent duplicated effort.

I've got a small paper to write and a frame buffer driver to port to 2.5,
so I'm going to be a bit busy on other matters for a while.

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