[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Ping patch

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 04:58:22PM +0100, Christian Knoke wrote:
> Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> > 
> > This patch adds 2 things:
> > 
> > * added PACKET_CONN_PING & PACKET_CONN_PONG:
> >   PACKET_CONN_PING is sent by the server every GAME_DEFAULT_PINGTIMEOUT
> >   seconds to all clients.
> >   If the client doesn't reply with PACKET_CONN_PONG by the time the server
> >   tries to PING it again the client's connection is cut.
> > 
> >   GAME_DEFAULT_PINGTIMEOUT is 60 seconds right now.
> 
> Single packets can get lost. Is it a good idea to rely on one
> packet?

Single IP packets can be lost. However a freeciv packet is just a
chunk of a TCP stream. TCP doesn't loose anything.

        Raimar

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