application handing on send

My tomcat application occasionally hangs trying push data to the
postgres backend.  When I view the connection to postgres with netstat I
see data sitting in the sendQ on the socket.
There is a firewall (cisco pix) between the tomcat server and the
database server.
I was wondering if there is some way to set the timeout on the driver as
to force a IO exception and terminate the jdbc request.


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