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^CJ^ · Voice Joined: 10 Sep 2005 Posts: 12

Hi,

i recently experienced a weird problem on my shell:

using a script that checks the lag the bot has to IRC, i got totally different results on eggdrop 1.6.17 and 1.6.15. I had one bot of each version connected from the same shell to the same irc server, the .15 bot hat a latency of 0.8-4ms, the .17 bot had 48ms+! I used this script: http://www.egghelp.org/cgi-bin/tcl_archive.tcl?mode=download&id=971 and also another one to which i have no url but which returned exaclty the same results...

I also found a workaround for the problem after a lot of experimenting: after i copied the server.so from the .15 modules/ folder to .17 and restarted, the .17 bot had the same low ping!

I tried that on 2 different shells and the result was the same. Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Maybe this is just some sort of compatibility problem with the script? I'm not sure whether the bot really has that higher latency or if its just the displayed value thats different.

pls help Confused

demond · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:58 pm Post subject:

that's probably due to a change in output queue(s) handling in .17

however, the ms latency is not that important; what is important is a proper output rate so the bot won't flood itself out

^CJ^ · Voice Joined: 10 Sep 2005 Posts: 12

Thanks for the answer!
As the bots are basically used as channelprotection on quakenet, i thought it might be better to have a fast latency in order to react more quickly to overtake attempts. Considering that would you still recommend the slower latency? If not so, would it be a stable solution to use the new eggdrop version with the old server.so?

demond · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:09 pm Post subject:

if your channel is registered with some form of network-wide channel service, you don't bother with takeovers - you can always easily reverse one, should it ever happen

if your channel is not registered and your enemies manage to somehow gain ops, chances are they will take over the channel anyway, no matter which version eggdrop you use - there isn't a bot or/and script that guarantees your botnet will emerge victorious from the op/deop battle - and if you don't have at least 10-15 opped bots, forget about protection from hacked ops

De Kus · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:06 pm Post subject:

one note, the script doesn't use proper milliseconds, because uses
[clock clicks]
instead of
[clock clicks -m]
which is the proper way to get a milliseconds timestamp. Is it possible that while changing the eggdrop version also the system got some updates or it was compiled with another TCL version, so the clock command returned probably an other clicks type. ah dont forget to edit the expr line to compensade the change Wink

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just to show you that it actually makes a difference:

demond · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:18 pm Post subject:

milliseconds are almost meaningless on IRC, and it's amazing how many scripts follow BitchX's 133t approach for measuring lag