WINSOCK - Setting a timeout for a connection attempt on a non existing IP?

Question

I am developing a RTSP Source filter in C++, and I am using WINSOCK 2.0 - blocking socket.

When I create a blocking socket, I set its SO_RCVTIMEO to 3 secs l

Answer 1

Actually, Berkeley sockets have not timeout for connect, so you can not set it. ICMP PING is not helpful, i don't know why, but if host not exists you spend around 1 second with PING. Try use ARP for detect is host exists.