[vpnc-devel] timeout

[Maurice Massar]

hi,

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:51:05PM +0100, Mirko Dietrich wrote:
> It would be great to have a timeout option. Sometimes vpnc just hangs. 
> This behavior is critical if vpnc is started at boot time. From time to 
> time it doesn't connect and hangs so the only thing I can do is to 
> reboot again. I think this is because of a weak wlan signal that is 
> suddenly lost. So a timeout as a command line option would be great, 
> wouldn't it?

there is a timeout if the concentrator is unreachable.
For the initial paket the timeout is
5seconds * 2^tries and a max of 6 tries.
But arguable a timeout of 10m35s is too long.

cu
maurice