Hi Dan,

Dan Fandrich wrote:
> It's probably a TCP failure that is ultimately closing your connection.
> If it's Linux you're using, you could try using sysctl to set different
> values for net.ipv4.tcp_retries2 and net.ipv4.tcp_retries1 to make TCP
> abort faster, but beware that this effects all networking applications
> on your system.

i don't really want to touch the system-wide settings... is it possible
to implement timeouts with sigalarm or a timer or something similar?

chris
Received on 2004-12-21