Retry interval for attempting to set up a tunnel

[Nick Hibma]

>> We set up tinc tunnels over 3G when the connection becomes available. It is a mobile environment so connections come and go frequently. We send tinc an ALRM signal to retry a connection, but somehow this fails once in a while.
>> 
>> Is there a way to influence the retry interval for connections that are down and the interval increment? We would like to be able to set this to 1 minute after ALRM.
>> 
>> We are using 1.0.16, so preferably a setting in that version (as deployed units are not updated very frequently), or in a newer version of not possible.
> 
> The increment is 5 seconds and cannot be changed, but the maximum time between
> retries can be changed with the MaxTimeout variable, which is available in
> 1.0.16 as well.

Ok, could it be that this statement is missing from the documentation?

	http://www.tinc-vpn.org/documentation/tinc_4.html#Main-configuration-variables

It is the man page.

Nick

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