Increase default for time since message addressee heard.

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wb2osz 2020-10-24 11:38:44 -04:00
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1 changed files with 17 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@ static int filt_s (pfstate_t *pf)
*
*
* "time" is maximum number of minutes since message addressee was last heard.
* This is required.
* This is required. APRS-IS uses 3 hours so that would be a good value here.
*
* "hops" is maximum number of digpeater hops. (i.e. 0 for heard directly).
* If hops is not specified, the maximum transmit digipeater hop count,
@ -1309,8 +1309,8 @@ static int filt_s (pfstate_t *pf)
* Examples:
* i/60/0 Heard in past 60 minutes directly.
* i/45 Past 45 minutes, default max digi hops.
* i/30/3 Default time, max 3 digi hops.
* i/30/8/42.6/-71.3/50.
* i/180/3 Default time (3 hours), max 3 digi hops.
* i/180/8/42.6/-71.3/50.
*
*
* It only makes sense to use this for the IS>RF direction.
@ -1321,6 +1321,10 @@ static int filt_s (pfstate_t *pf)
* position report from the sender of the "message."
* That is done somewhere else. We are not concerned with it here.
*
* IMHO, the rules here are too restrictive.
*
* FIXME -explain
*
*------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
static int filt_i (pfstate_t *pf)
@ -1329,7 +1333,15 @@ static int filt_i (pfstate_t *pf)
char *cp;
char sep[2];
char *v;
int heardtime = 30;
// http://lists.tapr.org/pipermail/aprssig_lists.tapr.org/2020-July/048656.html
// Default of 3 hours should be good.
// One might question why to have a time limit at all. Messages are very rare
// the the APRS-IS wouldn't be sending it to me unless the addressee was in the
// vicinity recently.
// TODO: Should produce a warning if a user specified filter does not include "i".
int heardtime = 180; // 3 hours * 60 min/hr = 180 minutes
#if PFTEST
int maxhops = 2;
#else
@ -1466,7 +1478,7 @@ static int filt_i (pfstate_t *pf)
*
* Maybe we could compromise here and say the sender must have been heard directly.
* It sent the message currently being processed so we must have heard it very recently, i.e. in
* the past minute, rather than the usual 30 or 60 minutes for the addressee.
* the past minute, rather than the usual 180 minutes for the addressee.
*/
was_heard = mheard_was_recently_nearby ("source", src, 1, 0, G_UNKNOWN, G_UNKNOWN, G_UNKNOWN);