RE: [lwip-devel] connect block for ever?? (i need a workaround)

[bill]

My empirical data on WinXP timing out a connection is between 5 and 6
minutes.

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> Behalf Of Kieran Mansley
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 8:38 AM
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> Subject: Re: [lwip-devel] connect block for ever?? (i need a
> workaround)
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> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 14:26 +0200, Piero 74 wrote:
> >
> > HOURS??? my understanding is that SYN packet will be send
> >  TCP_MAXSYNRTX times,
> > using a not simple timeout schema... but i hope that this timeout
> > could be of the order of seconds
> > and the function netconn_connect returns after this error  (i have to
> > d some test) :O|
> 
> The timeout between SYN retransmissions starts off as a few seconds,
> but
> it is increased exponentially each time the packet is retransmitted.
> Exponential increases very quickly get large.  I've not worked out the
> total time myself, but should be a relatively easy sum to do.
> 
> Kieran
> 
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