How to calculate the connection timeout when setting net.ipv4.tcp_syn_retries to 5 and net.ipv4.tcp_retries2 to 15?

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How to calculate the connection timeout when setting net.ipv4.tcp_syn_retries to 5 and net.ipv4.tcp_retries2 to 10?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4

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