[Pan-users] Re: Pan and modems

[Charles Kerr]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 05:23:50PM +0100, Graham Orr wrote:
> gaw zay wrote:
>  
> > try setting Pan to retry 100 times that should be enough I guess, click
> > on the button on the left bottom corner that says 'Offline' most of the
> > time and set max retries at whatever you think is good. 100 is just a nice
> > round decimal number, try 0010 0000  or whatever your favorite numbering
> > system considers a round number ;)
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I already had it set to 400 and it seemed to make
> no difference. So I bumped it up to 10000000... still little difference.
> I guess it's rapidly retrying and failing, or the task retries isn't the
> problem.

Perhaps, if a task fails because a socket connection can't be opened,
the task should `sleep' for awhile before retrying?