[Freeciv-Dev] Re: connection problem (PR#358)

[Paul Zastoupil <paulz@xxxxxxxx>]

Reinier Post wrote:
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> Make the maximum buffer size a server setting?
> 
>   /set autocutsize 32K
> 
> Or as an extra, support a timeout in seconds.
> 
>   /set autocutsecs 10
> 
> means 'feel free to cut a player's connection if it doesn't respond
> within 10 seconds'.  For each client, store the current time upon
> reading a packet and compare it to the current time upon writing one.
> This would protect the server against clients that are unused or that
> lose connection in an unclean way.
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> Yes!  Using a server variables would make servers less or more generous
> towards players with slow connections.  This can be very useful.

This should of course be cmdlevel hack.

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Paul Zastoupil