TCP SYNSENT Timeout [7:66178]

2003-03-25 Thread John Neiberger
One of our programmers is asking me about this and I really don't have an answer. I've checked RFC 793 and haven't spotted the answer yet. Is there a default time specified in TCP to remain in the SYN SENT state? If a device sends a SYN and doesn't receive a response, is the timeout a built-in T

RE: TCP SYNSENT Timeout [7:66178]

2003-03-25 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
Did you check the host requirements RFC, RFC 1122? I think it's OS-dependent though and not specified Priscilla John Neiberger wrote: > > One of our programmers is asking me about this and I really > don't have an answer. I've checked RFC 793 and haven't spotted > the answer yet. > > Is th

Re: TCP SYNSENT Timeout [7:66178]

2003-03-26 Thread Marc Thach Xuan Ky
I don't know any Java but standard UNIX sockets allow a non-blocking connect. Thus you don't care what the underlying stack is doing, you just time-out at the application layer. rgds Marc John Neiberger wrote: > > One of our programmers is asking me about this and I really don't have an > answer