- How may times to retry before killing alive TCP connection.
- RFC1122 says that the limit should be longer than 100 sec.
- It is too small number. Default value 15 corresponds to ~13-30min
- depending on RTO.
+ This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
+ when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
+ Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
+ exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
+ retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
+
+ The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
+ seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
+ TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
+ hypothetical timeout.
+
+ RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
+ which corresponds to a value of at least 8.