Intermittent network failures normal?

[Jeff Rizzo <riz@tastylime.net>]

I haven't dug deeply into this yet, but I seem to get "Too many network 
failures" a sizeable percentage (10%+) of the time when using tarsnap 
(1.0.30 and 1.0.31) from a fairly well-connected location (and also from 
my home system).  I haven't yet checked whether it's MAX_RECONNECTS or 
MAX_RECONNECTS_AWOL that is being exceeded, but I'm curious whether this 
is something others experience as well.  It makes nightly backups a 
hit-or-miss affair...

I can easily enough bump those values in my own copy of the source to 
see if it fixes things, but that's a bit of a maintenance issue for new 
versions.  Assuming bumping one or both of these fixes things for me, 
might it not be a useful thing to be able to set in the config file or 
from the command line?

Thanks,
+j