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.