[vpnc-devel] timeout

[Mirko Dietrich]

Maurice Massar wrote:
> 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.

OK... I admit I never waited 10 minutes ;)

Would it be much effort to implement the timeout? Another option could 
be to let the user control the max. retry value.

Bye
Mirko