tinc - Oct 2013 - Retry interval for attempting to set up a tunnel

Hi,

We set up tinc tunnels over 3G when the connection becomes available. It is a
mobile environment so connections come and go frequently. We send tinc an ALRM
signal to retry a connection, but somehow this fails once in a while.

Is there a way to influence the retry interval for connections that are down and
the interval increment? We would like to be able to set this to 1 minute after
ALRM.

We are using 1.0.16, so preferably a setting in that version (as deployed units
are not updated very frequently), or in a newer version of not possible.

Thanks in advance!

Nick Hibma
AnyWi Technologies

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 10:13:55AM +0200, Nick Hibma wrote:
> We set up tinc tunnels over 3G when the connection becomes available. It is
a mobile environment so connections come and go frequently. We send tinc an ALRM
signal to retry a connection, but somehow this fails once in a while.
> 
> Is there a way to influence the retry interval for connections that are
down and the interval increment? We would like to be able to set this to 1
minute after ALRM.
> 
> We are using 1.0.16, so preferably a setting in that version (as deployed
units are not updated very frequently), or in a newer version of not possible.
The increment is 5 seconds and cannot be changed, but the maximum time between
retries can be changed with the MaxTimeout variable, which is available in
1.0.16 as well.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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