2 N-lines, how to get it to use second if no reply from first

Johnny Elton · Jan 10th 2016

I've got 2 N-lines from different people, and what I'd like mgcamd to do is

Try line 1 ------ reply in X seconds, all good
no reply in X seconds, try line 2...

or even send the ECM to both servers, and use whichever reply comes first. Hopefully a bit of redundancy will reduce glitching.

I've tried:

CWS = host1 port1 etc etc etc
CWS = host2 port2 etc etc etc

and also

CWS = host1 port1 etc etc etc
CWS_MULTIPLE = host2 port2 etc etc etc

but it seems to nearly always use the first line, even retrying and retrying and retrying when there's no reply, instead of trying the second line.

Is there a way to configure mgcamd to use 2 lines efficiently?

**Inspiral** · Jan 10th 2016

Try changing

CWS_KEEPALIVE = 60

Johnny Elton · Jan 10th 2016

Quote from Inspiral

Try changing

CWS_KEEPALIVE = 60

I'll give it a shot, but I thought that was only related to keeping the connection open when there's no traffic (ie when you're watching a FTA channel)?

**master G** · Jan 10th 2016

keepalive checks to see if there`s a connection, if not it tries to reconnect. You might want to try removing this parameter altogether..
Try this in mg_cfg:

Code

# network retry, use summ for several options
#    00 disable
#    01 retry every new ecm
#    02 try to connect to offline shares every Q: seconds
#    04 try to detect and fast reconnect to lost (and not used atm) server
#    + XX messages number and YY seconds to reconnect
#    mg will reconnect to server, if no answer to last XX ecm/keepalive or
#    if no answer for last ecm or keepalive sent for YY seconds
#    set to 0 to disable
N: { 00 }

Johnny Elton · Jan 10th 2016

I'll try that Master G, thanks.

But should I be using
CWS = line1
CWS = line2

or

CWS = line1
CWS_MULTIPLE = line2

or

CWS_MULTIPLE = line1
CWS_MULTIPLE = line2

PS. Do I need to add "lan" to the end of each line too?

**master G** · Jan 11th 2016

You should be using this:

Code

CWS = line1
CWS_MULTIPLE = line2

lan on the end is used only to identify who/what the server is, you can remove it and the line will still work.

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