Cgminer P2pool / solo question

[avaughn]

I am re-posting this question here since no one seems to know or want to help in the section that it's supposed to be in. THANKS!

Hopefully someone can explain this to me.

I have cgminer setup to use my P2pool server (Pool 0). I also have another pool setup(Pool 1) pointing straight to my bitcoin server.

I have cgminer on Rotate. Every 120mins it will switch between pools.

When it switched from P2pool to just bitcoin it says connecting to host:8332 via longpolling.

Is this a good thing to have LP enabled when solo mining?

Is it still solo mining even though my miner is somehow still using P2pool for information?

Is using rotate frowned upon?

[Graet]

cgminer will continue to take LP from the 1st pool it connects to, even after switching pools
I have heard it said it is helpful in solo to get a LP from a pool - helps cgminer know to ask for new work from your bitcoind, p2pool does LP differently to regular pools though, not sure if that is an issue

[avaughn]

Thank you for replying.

One thing I notice is that when I am connected to my bitcoin server and not P2pool I get a lot of Rejected shares.

[jork]

One other consideration is that p2pool pays off better when you are not pool-hoping. It favors steady mining. Stay on for 24 hours and your payout will be better.

[avaughn]

A 0.05 payout isn't much though. That's why I am looking into the Rotate feature with CgMiner to mix it up and maybe get lucky.

I don't think the rotate feature really works because on the outputs it says:

"Switching to http://192.168.0.100:8332"

then the very next line it says:

"Switching to http://192.168.0.100:9332"

so it's not really rotating.

Anyone know anything about this?