[Xastir] hit and run packet

[Wes Johnston]

wouldn't you end up with loads of open dialog boxes that said "hard fail"....
they stack up bad enough at 2mins a pop.

You have a point though... if my local IGATE (kc4pl) were to shorten his dump on
connect time to say, 10 minutes, I'd stay caught up as I travelled from one
hotspot to the next.

Other than the 2 minute retry, is there any way for xastir to know that eth0's
IP address has failed? or has been reinitiated?  Can it trigger someway off of
a hook in a sucessful DHCP assignment?  In other words, if I unplug my cat 5
cable, eth0 fails.  Could xastir know that DHCP requested a new IP sucessfully
when the cable was reinserted?

Wes
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Quoting Curt Mills <archer at eskimo.com>:

> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Wes Johnston wrote:
>
> > All that's needed on the xastir side is for xastir to sense the connection
> > station of the eth0 {or eth1/2/3/4) card and try to reconnect to the normal
> > internet server ASAP when a connection exists on the network card.
>
> Couldn't you instead just have the 802.11 software set up a default
> route when an open network is found, then Xastir would just be on a
> fast retry trying to connect to a server instead of once every 2
> minutes as it is now?  Just speed up the timing parameters and it
> all should work as-is.
>
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