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Article #64Re: spp.user.timeout
From: vanMelle.pa
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1989 17:51
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1989 17:51
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This variable is used mainly for two, perhaps incompatible, measures: 1) It is an upper bound on the "round trip time estimate" that Lisp makes. An SPP connection maintains a round trip estimate based on how long it takes the other end to ack a packet we send. This estimate is used so as to have a guess about how long we should wait without a response before deciding that the other end missed our packet and we should try again. 2) Lisp waits at least this long when trying to initially establish a connection before deciding that the other server is not there. The actual timeout can be larger if the server is far away: it is the larger of spp.user.timeout and 3000*#hops. So raising it might be good if you're having a hard time connecting to servers; if not, raising it only means you'll wait longer for Lisp to give up on trying to connect to a server. Also, any temporary slowdowns in existing connections may take longer to speed back up if Lisp has cranked the round trip estimate needlessly high, but I suspect this effect is minor. The units are milliseconds. Bill
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!XEROX.COM!vanMelle.pa From: vanMelle.pa@XEROX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox Subject: Re: spp.user.timeout Message-ID: <890830-105153-5679@Xerox> Date: 30 Aug 89 17:51:00 GMT References: <welch@cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Info-1100 Mailing List Lines: 23