Remote administration still failed. My last two commits classified the failure correctly
and fixed the credential policy, but the login itself kept coming back as no reply from
repeaters that were up, traced, and holding the right password.
The wait I added was counted from the wrong moment. `budget` is the *node's* answer window,
but the clock started before `send_login_sync`, and almost none of what that call spends is
the node's: it first waits its turn on meshcore's mesh-request lock — which every telemetry
poll, status read and courier retry holds for a whole round trip — and only then blocks
until a MSG_SENT the library correlates by event type alone arrives. Whatever that came to
was subtracted from the repeater's window, so the fix read as "wait longer" and behaved as
"wait the same ten seconds, minus the queue". A send that outlasted the budget left the node
no window at all, and the log bears the shape out: both attempts to YUL-UpperSalaberry ended
at 9985 ms and 10015 ms — the budget exactly, spent from before the request was on the air.
So the answer is timed from the send, the way `run_trace` times its reply. And the route
sizing is a floor rather than a verdict: a login is an admin exchange out and back, not a
trace's single small packet, so a contact we hold a one-hop route for was being given a
narrower window (7.2 s) than the routeless contact beside it that floods (10 s). Knowing
where a node is must not make us give up on it sooner.
The rest is making the next failure readable, because this one was not. A no-reply has three
causes that the old line could not tell apart, so it now reports where the time went — the
send's own duration, the budget, and how long the node had — and quotes the frames it heard
but could not act on: a LOGIN_SUCCESS/LOGIN_FAILED naming some other node (a key prefix that
did not match, not a quiet node), and a companion ERROR, which is the one failure that never
reaches the mesh and which `send_login_sync` erases into the same bare `None`. Uncorrelated,
so it is evidence in the log and never a verdict.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5
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