This is a problem that both servers and clients experience. I see people complaining on servers about not having their load outs for a day.
It would be nice if Valve added a command to at least force reconnect that could be used on server (and client). If fixing automatic reconnects is not priority. On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:07 PM, bottige...@gmail.com <bottige...@gmail.com>wrote: > It doesn't work. It just prints Connection to Steam servers lost. > (Result = 3) and never attempts to reconnect. > > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Asher Baker <asher...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's about 5% of the work to just inject a disconnected callback into > > the queue :P > > > > ~~~~~ > > "Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, > > And they went to sea in a Sieve." - Edward Lear > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:52 AM, hlds <h...@gmx.com> wrote: > >> There is no command for this. > >> > >> It can be done with a plugin, but is a lot of work and it must be fixed > >> almost everytime Valve updates steamclient.so library (is stripped, so > >> signatures must be used for everything). The idea is to call > >> CCMinterface::ConnectionDisconnected method with k_EResultIOFailure > error > >> code, to force the server to reconnect to another CM in few seconds. > This is > >> tricky because the call must be made from a thread managed by > steamclient.so > >> library, not from server's main thread. For Windows probably is same > thing. > >> > >> There's a manual solution too: find the port used by server for talking > with > >> CM server (usually is 26901, but only if is not already used) and use > the > >> firewall to block the communication. In few seconds you'll see that the > >> server loses connection with Steam servers. Then remove the firewall > rule > >> and the server will reconnect back in few seconds, probably to a > different > >> CM server, maybe using a different protocol (TCP instead UDP). > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com > >> [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of > >> bottige...@gmail.com > >> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 3:52 AM > >> To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com > >> Subject: [hlds_linux] Reconnect to steam command? > >> > >> Is there a command to reconnect to Steam? > >> > >> Sometimes a server will lose connection to the item server or > >> quickplay, and it will not reconnect until the server is rebooted. > >> Changing maps does not help. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > >> please visit: > >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
