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From: Arne Schwabe <arne@...1227...>
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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 23:01:06 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH v2] Exponentially back off on repeated
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> Or do you have tcp-client in mind? In case of tcp-client, before this
> patch, "--connect-retry 0" will hammer the server with repeated
> retries.  That will be avoided as max sec defaults to 300 sec, unless
> the user specifies "--connect-retry 0 0".  Shall we require that the
> second arg to connect-retry should be greater than some minimum, say, at
> least 10 sec? 

No, the TCP-SERVER line there is for p2p mode but with tcp-server. In
p2p mode with p2p the code will also execute that socket-restart code
after the other side will disconnect.

Arne