[libnice] a question on STUN retransmission timer

[Tom Chen]

Hello,


In stun\usages\timer.h, there are some flags related to STUN retransmission timer.

/**
 * The default intial timeout to use for the timer
 */
#define STUN_TIMER_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT 600

/**
 * The default maximum retransmissions allowed before a timer decides to timeout
 */
#define STUN_TIMER_DEFAULT_MAX_RETRANSMISSIONS 3

/**
 * stun_timer_start:
 * Starts a STUN transaction retransmission timer.
 * This should be called as soon as you send the message for the first time on
 * a UDP socket.
 * The timeout before the next retransmission is set to @initial_timeout, then
 * each time a packet is retransmited, that timeout will be doubled, until the
 * @max_retransmissions retransmissions limit is reached.
 * total_timeout =  initial_timeout * (2^(max_retransmissions + 1) - 1);
 */

Reducing STUN_TIMER_DEFAULT_MAX_RETRANSMISSIONS can significantly reduce the time used in local candidate gathering.

I am wondering why the equation in timer.h which is used to calculate the total time needed for local candidate gathering does not consider the number of local & remote network interfaces?

 total_timeout =  initial_timeout * (2^(max_retransmissions + 1) - 1);

Tom
     
 		 	   		  
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