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Server restarted, Clients need to reconnect but how ?

by Devrim Erdem · in Torque Game Engine · 06/20/2004 (8:31 am) · 3 replies

Hello,

I have a server client application couple. At some point server dies. I manually restart the server and I would the client to reconnect to the new server.

I have tried to delete the current client connection and reconstruct it. The connection terminates with the message "Shutdown" but the new client can not connect to the server. ( both clients are in the same process. )

What could I be doing wrong ?
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Associate Kyle Carter
#1
06/20/2004 (10:47 am)
The client connection will time out and call TNL::NetConnection::onConnectTimedOut() before being deleted. Then all you need to do is createa a new connection.

Are your client and server sharing a NetInterface?

Devrim Erdem
#2
06/22/2004 (12:45 am)
No they are not sharing the interface. I have just noticed that it works when I delete and re-create the client. Since the timeout is too long, it wasn't possible for me to notice that TNL::NetConnection::onConnectTimedOut() is called.

So what I need to do now is to create a new connection if existing one dies. The time out is too long for my application, how can I change the time out ? I couldn't see a ::setTimeOut method.

Thanks.

Associate Mark Frohnmayer
#3
06/23/2004 (1:15 pm)
Currently the timeout is defined as NetConnection::PingRetryCount * NetConnection::PingTimeout. Change either of these numbers down to decrease the timeout interval. Also, in the HEAD version, the timeout method called is NetConnection::onConnectionTerminated. If the connect attempt times out before a connection is established, NetConnection::onConnectTerminated will be called.