Ok. Its a requirement from my customer which I need to implement ! My customer doesn't want normal retries but want this to be tried. As simple as that. In addtion:and after m retries, I would want to switch to some default credentials and continue the retries. Does this explain ? On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:09 PM, James Carlson <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ashmath Khan wrote: >> Thanks James for long explanation. >> >> Let me explain. I am actually looking for a different retry mechanism >> for failures. My retry interval would vary depending on the number of >> retries. To given an example: >> nth retry is to be attempted at (n - 1)3 x 10 secs after previous attempt > > Why? You still haven't explained what you're doing. > > What problem are you attempting to solve? Can you give us any hints at all? > >> So the retry interval is not constant but derived from a formula. >> >> Are such things possible without modifying the code ? > > No. See pppd/fsm.c, f->timeouttime, and the TIMEOUT() macro. > > -- > James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
