Re: CA gateway question

[Artem Kazakov <kazakov@gmail.com>]

Hi Jeff, 

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:19:58 -0700
"Jeff Hill" <johill@lanl.gov> wrote:
> The client library would eventually find the PV in the other gateway, and
> connect through the other gateway. How fast it would switch over depends on
> how it lost contact with the original gateway. If the network path to the
> original gateway was severed it might take a relatively longer amount of
> time to switch over - approximately as long as the TCP keep-alive interval
> parameter specifies. 

As I've read in CA documentation, some time ago the behaviour of CA
library was different. The clients tended to start new search just as
soon as they discover that connection is "unresponsive". But in the
current version they wait until TCP connection goes down (and as you
mentioned it may take pretty long time if the connection is not closed
in a "polite" manner). So is there any configuration variable or some
other way to choose which behaviour we need ?
 

Artem.