High Availability Guide : Using HotStandby with applications : Defining timeouts between applications and servers : Specifying -C option in the connect parameters
  
Specifying -C option in the connect parameters
You can specify the connect timeout (called also login timeout) value in the Connect parameter used in the [Com] and [Watchdog] sections of the solid.ini file. This connect timeout works only for the TCP/IP protocol.
The syntax is:
Parameter = tcp -cnumber-of-milliseconds [machine name] port_number
where Parameter is Connect or Listen.
If no value is provided for the connect timeout, the server uses the operating system-specific default value.
Note For client applications, such as the watchdog, it is convenient to provide the connect timeout value in the Connect parameter using the -c option. Otherwise certain network failure types may cause a long wait before the failure is detected.
For example:
Application node:
[Com]
;The server listens to port 1320, and the Connection timeout is 1000 ms.
Listen = tcpip -c1000 1320
See also
Defining timeouts between applications and servers