# RTP Session Properties Description

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**Created:** [January 26, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtp-session-properties-description/34865 "2011-01-26T20:30:14Z")\
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I’m trying to understand how the various timeout variables in wowza affect when/how a connection is closed between wowza and an IP Camera RTSP source.

I’ve looked at the Configuration Reference document under the MediaCasters.xml section, and found descriptions for MediaCaster/ConnectionTimeout and MediaCaster/KeepAliveTime, which make sense. However, I could not find a description for the following variables:

```auto
		<MediaCaster>
			<Name>rtp</Name>
			<Properties>
				<Property>
					<Name>streamTimeout</Name>
					<Value>12000</Value>
					<Type>Integer</Type>
				</Property>
				<Property>
					<Name>rtspConnectionTimeout</Name>
					<Value>4000</Value>
					<Type>Integer</Type>
				</Property>
				<Property>
					<Name>rtspSessionTimeout</Name>
					<Value>15000</Value>
					<Type>Integer</Type>
				</Property>
				<Property>
					<Name>sdpFileCheckFreqency</Name>
					<Value>4000</Value>
					<Type>Integer</Type>
				</Property>
				<Property>
					<Name>sdpHTTPCheckFreqency</Name>
					<Value>4000</Value>
					<Type>Integer</Type>
				</Property>
			</Properties>
		</MediaCaster>

```

For example how is MediaCaster/ConnectionTimeout different from MediaCaster/Properties/Property/name/rtspConnectionTimeout

Sorry if this information is easy to find. If you just want to point me to another document, that would be great.

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