> And what's the reason of the backoff ? :) isn't it a high network latency ? > > try pinging a backed off peer.
Good idea I did that... now look at the result: Low Level PING, i.e. ICMP None means they dont respond to ICMP Packets... I love those. CONNECTED 120.371 Fred,0.7,1.0,633 CONNECTED 196.982 Fred,0.7,1.0,648 CONNECTED 115.929 Fred,0.7,1.0,647 CONNECTED NONE Fred,0.7,1.0,625 CONNECTED 101.057 Fred,0.7,1.0,648 CONNECTED NONE Fred,0.7,1.0,647 CONNECTED 153.666 Fred,0.7,1.0,648 CONNECTED NONE Fred,0.7,1.0,648 CONNECTED NONE Fred,0.7,1.0,625 BACKED OFF NONE Fred,0.7,1.0,648 BACKED OFF 51.486 Fred,0.7,1.0,647 BACKED OFF 561.061 Fred,0.7,1.0,648 BACKED OFF 131.108 Fred,0.7,1.0,648 BACKED OFF 1143.935 Fred,0.7,1.0,648 BACKED OFF NONE Fred,0.7,1.0,647 BACKED OFF 65.244 Fred,0.7,1.0,648 BACKED OFF 126.501 Fred,0.7,1.0,648 BACKED OFF NONE Fred,0.7,1.0,622 BACKED OFF 57.296 Fred,0.7,1.0,647 I tried it 3 times (real time) and the results where similar all the time also the low pinger were backed off for quite long time intervals.
