Dear "David Collier",
In message <memo.20091023110946.2092M@postmaster+dexdyne.com.cix.co.uk> you wrote:
But there's a difference between "is the server there" and "please TFTP from it - and the timeouts for one are not the same as the timeout for another.
But with a ping you do NOT check if the (TFTP) server is there. All you check if the host is up and running. Eventually there is no TFTP server running on it.
If the server is present, I'm happy to use relaxed timeouts for the actual transfer.
Then test with a short-timeout TFTP request, and if this fails becoause of other reasons than "server not responding" then retry with longer timeouts. Feel free to define your own policy.
But I'd like a quicker way of just checking whether I'm on the "production test network" or in a user site in the field.
I don't see why that would be not possible or even difficult with the current code.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk