+/* See man tcp(7) for more detail about this value. */
+#define LTTCOMM_INET_PROC_SYN_RETRIES_PATH "/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn_retries"
+#define LTTCOMM_INET_PROC_FIN_TIMEOUT_PATH "/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout"
+
+/*
+ * The timeout value of a connect() is computed with an algorithm inside the
+ * kernel using the defined TCP SYN retries so the end value in time is
+ * approximative. According to tcp(7) man page, a value of 5 is roughly 180
+ * seconds of timeout. With that information, we've computed a factor of 36
+ * (180/5) by considering that it grows linearly. This is of course uncertain
+ * but this is the best approximation we can do at runtime.
+ */
+#define LTTCOMM_INET_SYN_TIMEOUT_FACTOR 36
+
+/*
+ * Maximum timeout value in seconds of a TCP connection for both send/recv and
+ * connect operations.
+ */
+extern unsigned long lttcomm_inet_tcp_timeout;
+