[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Ping

[Thomas Strub <ue80@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:12:38PM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 04:07:48PM +0100, Thomas Strub wrote:
> > > > > > No sequence number in the ping packet.
> > > > > > Ping packet every 3 seconds and not as player option.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Please make it a server option or just use pingtimeout.
> > > > 
> > > > Making a server option is much work ... so i first wanted that it works.
> > > 
> > > If you use the same packet you may also reuse pingtimeout.
> > 
> > I don't want to send a ping every 60 seconds ... thats much to seldom.
> 
> Are you sure? Have you collected some info on how the ping varies?

With doing nother the ping is stabil, but in game it varies a lot around
turn turn done.
And you see if someone has connection problems if you ping more often.

Thomas