[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2278) Ping version 13

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:11:23PM -0800, Thomas Strub via RT wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 04:43:17AM -0800, Raimar Falke via RT wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 02:44:55AM -0800, Raimar Falke via RT wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > This is an updated version of the ping patch from Thomas. Changes:
> > >  - cleanup of the packets
> > >  - remove the timing.[ch] changes
> > >  - adding the pingtime server option
> > >  - a lot of other cleanups
> > 
> > Version 12:
> >  - proper initialization of ping_time
> >  - check for ping_time==-1
> >  - send the ping_info packet only every game.ping_time seconds
> >  - move ping_text construction into plrdlg_common
> 
> It needs much time until the first ping information is sent to the
> client.

The client is pinged after the connection is accepted. But the sending
of all the ping information may take up to game.pingtime seconds.

> after a:
> 1: tried to stop already stopped timer
> The pings don't update.
> Happened after playing with 3 connections (+ 27) dropping one player and
> joining as the AI ...
> 
> After changing the pingtime to another value -> -2147483.-64

It now handles the case correct where multiple pings are outstanding.

        Raimar

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