Re: [tkined] timeout and retries in scotty tnm extension

From: Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Date: Wed Oct 10 2001 - 09:49:29 MET DST


>>>>> Vishi Anand writes:

Vishi> I have a case where my SNMP agent times out. I am using the
Vishi> default timeout of 5 sec. and retries of 3. What I observe is
Vishi> that my script makes 3 requests to the agent in those 5 seconds
Vishi> (when the agent does not reply)

Vishi> My thinking was that if I use a timeout of 5 seconds and
Vishi> retries is 3, then my script will wait for a response from the
Vishi> agent for 5 seconds, if no response comes, it will try again
Vishi> for next 5 seconds and then this process will get repeated once
Vishi> more.

The man page says:

       -timeout time
              The -timeout option defines the time the session
              will wait for a response. The time is defined in
              seconds with a default of 5 seconds.

       -retries number
              The -retries option defines how many times a
              request is retransmitted during the timeout inter-
              val. The default number of retries is 3.

/js

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