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Re: Intermittent Heartbeats
Greg Orsini / Cameron Systems
27 May 2005 11:09AM ET

Heartbeats are only required when no other messages have been sent for the Heartbeat Interval, in your case 60 seconds. For example, if a counter-party is sending FIX messages (such as FIX order traffic), they do not need to send Heatbeats until they have stopped sending any other traffic for 60 seconds.

Regards, Greg.

> Hi All,
>
> I'm fairly new to FIX and have started work on a live messaging hub
> where I've noticed that some clients are experiencing intermittent
> Heartbeats. This occurs where a client send a login message with a
> Heartbeat interval time of (on average) 60 seconds. They may happily
> send messages for most of the day, receiving Heartbeats every minute and
> then suddenly not recieved any Heartbeats for the next three minutes as
> messaging continues.
>
> Are Heartbeats prone to 'interference' or delay of some kind?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cameron


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