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| Sombalance
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| Wed 22 Aug 2012 11:05 AM (UTC) |
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| I've recently moved to playing muds on a windows 7 box using MushClient. I've noticed that at times I seem to get disconnected from the mud, almost like a network drop. It isn't consistent, but when it does happen it seems to be within the first 15 minutes of connecting to the game and I've been idle for a few minutes. (Idle in MushClient, I'm normally active in another window, often putty)
The mud reports a server disconnect from the remote end.
I haven't noticed the behavior on Vista or XP, but I'm not using either of them as much as the 7 box these days. I'm running MushClient 4.73 with no plugins, triggers or aliases turned on. I do have MXP turned on though.
I've also been trying to reproduce it using putty, but so far I've only had it happen in the one configuration.
I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced anything like this? I've had absolutely no luck consistently reproducing the issue and I'd feel a little better about if if someone else had seen something similar.
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| Posted by
| Daniel P
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| Reply #1 on Wed 22 Aug 2012 01:50 PM (UTC) Amended on Wed 22 Aug 2012 02:05 PM (UTC) by Daniel P
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| Not a Win7 user. But this used to happen to me a few years ago on WinXP, especially if I was at the library. Perhaps at least an attempt at a solution would be a timer in MUSHClient which would send an IDLE command every five minutes or so. And also set the option on the server to send you a keepalive. Those two commands are designed to keep you connected to the server while idle.
Both of these commands should exist for the server you're playing on, though the syntax would probably differ between server types. Like on Penn, KEEPALIVE is a flag you set on yourself, whereas in something like Iron Realms MUDs, keepalive is a subset of the config. You'd have to figure that bit out yourself.
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,057 posts) Bio
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| Reply #2 on Thu 23 Aug 2012 07:06 AM (UTC) |
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| There is a plugin you can install, discussed here:
That lets you set a "keepalive" option which may or may not help in your particular case. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Sombalance
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| Reply #3 on Thu 23 Aug 2012 10:25 AM (UTC) |
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| Thanks, I didn't even think to see if there was a plugin that might turn on the keep alive.
It normally happens about once a day, I just can't predict when, but I should know by this weekend if that was it.
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| Posted by
| Sombalance
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| Reply #4 on Fri 24 Aug 2012 08:53 AM (UTC) |
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| Just a quick update. Keep alive didn't help. I was disconnected about 10 minutes after setting it.
After comparing the old connections to the new one, I noticed that I used the IP address instead of the domain name in the connections on my older pc. Which is also what I did when I tested with putty on the new pc without issue.
I changed the new connection in MUSHclient to use the IP address and I've been free of random disconnects since.
It was a dynamic dns name which might explain it.
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #5 on Fri 24 Aug 2012 09:15 PM (UTC) |
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| | Glad it worked out for you. |
- Nick Gammon
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