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2.5) Connections expiration time
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It is possible (and recommended) to configure several time-outs on TCP
connections. Three independant timers are adjustable with values specified
in milliseconds. A session will be terminated if either one of these timers
expire.

  - the time we accept to wait for data from the client, or for the client to
    accept data : 'clitimeout' :

        # client time-out set to 2mn30.
        clitimeout  150000

  - the time we accept to wait for data from the server, or for the server to
    accept data : 'srvtimeout' :

        # server time-out set to 30s.
        srvtimeout  30000

  - the time we accept to wait for a connection to establish on a server :
    'contimeout' :

        # we give up if the connection does not complete within 4 seconds
        contimeout  4000