[Xastir] Feature request AGW reconnect

[Tony Hunt]

Good on xastir getting on the front page of sorts..

I must take it all back with the Feature request for the AGW interface.. I 
woke up this morning and its allready there and it even works.. So Ive 
managed to confuse myself.

The reconnect time seems excessive at times. I have not checked this out 
thouroughly . Ive seen it take nearly 5 mins at times but it does recover 
repeatedly. Ive messed about with Internet server ports and the recovery 
feature more in the past. It seems to work in a similar way with AGW. At 
some point after repeated retrys Ive seen it take up to 10 mins before it 
actually reconnects even with the Internet connection being available for 
the full 10 mins. There may be some sort of sliding timer which backs off 
after x number of failed retrys on a short term basis.

So I can only guess at what was happening with me yesterday.. 2 
possibilities.. I was in an alternate xastir universe yesterday and now I am 
not. Perhaps I am in an alternate xastir universe today though !
Perhaps I was running a different (older) version of xastir when I saw this 
issue but thats confusing as I dont think any work has been done on the AGW 
interface in ages. Yep I know thats 3 possibilities !!

PS. The AGW interface works nicely via the LAN using the latest xastir VM 
Hardy 090307 and it even does a reconnect on Net failure.

Tony Hunt  VK5AH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
To: "Tony Hunt" <wavetel at internode.on.net>
Cc: "Xastir mailing list" <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 3:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Feature request AGW reconnect


> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Tony Hunt wrote:
>
>> I wonder if this would be hard to impliment ? On the AGW interface
>> could we have a Reconnect on fail option like the Internet servers
>> ? If I run AGW over the LAN which is the usual way then its often
>> via 802.11 wifi..
>> This can at times be flakey .. If the connection to AGW is lost
>> then it just stays that way and never re-establishes.. It usually
>> does not do this but the few times it does is plain annoying and
>> often goes unnoticed for long periods. The other thing that may
>> happen is a reboot of the machine running AGW and then xastir has
>> to have the interface restarted.
>
> Care to rephrase the above as an _unreasonable_ request so that I
> can discount it?  hi hi
>
> Unfortunately the above seems perfectly reasonable.  It's something
> I would want if I were running AGWPE links across a network often.
> I've only done it a small amount for testing and didn't encounter
> the problem.
>
> I'll see what I can do.
>
> P.S.  Did anyone ever think Xastir would make it onto the front page
> of ARRL.ORG?  We did today!  Of course it's not all that obvious.
> You have to click on the Linux Journal entry to make the image large
> enough to read the word "Xastir"...
>
> -- 
> Curt, WE7U.                         <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer>
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