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?