[OZAPRS] Aprs Server Question

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 10:49:02AM +1000, Geoff - VK2XJG wrote:
> G'day Norm,  The weekend couldn't come around fast enough this week :-)
> 
> The extra frame is a keepalive.  Its part of the server's protection
against 
> hung ports, where a client connects but sends no data.  What used to
happen 
> was clients connected and then crashed, leaving the port hung on the
server. 
> If the keepalive goes un-acknowledged, then port is torn down.
> 
> 20 seconds is the default, however we can experiment with increasing the

> time, I'll try 5 minutes and see if that causes any issues :-)

That's a pretty expensive keep-alive! A simple line feed (or better yet
a NULL) would suffice.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>
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