Fw: Message retry and backoff

[Rene Kluwen / Chimit Software Solutions]

 I'm all for it!   Will sms.retry and sms.delay be configurable? (rethorical question).   -- Rene...   -------- This email message has been automatically scanned for viri using Sophos antivirus. -------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Oded Arbel To: Kannel-devel (E-mail) Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 4:13 PM Subject: Message retry and backoff Hi list.   we added a patch to Kannel to enable message retry and backoff. it was quite simple really, but I'm pretty sure it can mess things up, so I would like to get suggestions as to how to properly handle this . it goes something like this : - we add to the message structure to integers, retry and delay. - whenever smscconn_send() is called on a message, and before it stores that message in the driver's queue it will increment the retry field by one, and add to the delay field a configured number of seconds (we set it currently to 60) times the number of retries (this achieving the backoff effect). - sms_router(), before calling smsc_rout() we do this : <snip>         if (msg->sms.retry > BB_SMSCCONN_MAX_RETRY) {                 warning(2, "Message has too many retries - consider it a failure");                 bb_smscconn_send_failed(NULL, msg, SMSCCONN_FAILED_DISCARDED);                 ret = 0;                 continue;         }           if (msg->sms.delay + msg->sms.time > time(NULL)) {                 debug("bb.sms", 0, "Message is delayed - will send later, message retries %d", msg->sms.retry);                 list_produce(outgoing_sms, msg);                 ret = 0;                 continue;         } </snip>   the ret=0 emmulates the effect of smsc_rout() returning after not founding any available drivers.   comments please ?   -- Oded Arbel m-Wise mobile solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED]   +972-9-9581711 (116) +972-67-340014   ::.. -- Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.