diff --git a/packages/system/linstor/hack/plunger/plunger-satellite.sh b/packages/system/linstor/hack/plunger/plunger-satellite.sh
index 3d450f29..688cfd65 100755
--- a/packages/system/linstor/hack/plunger/plunger-satellite.sh
+++ b/packages/system/linstor/hack/plunger/plunger-satellite.sh
@@ -8,30 +8,6 @@ terminate() {
 
 trap terminate SIGINT SIGQUIT SIGTERM
 
-function get_drbd_connecting() {
-  all_devices="$(drbdsetup status --json 2>/dev/null)"
-  unhealthy_devices="$(echo "${all_devices}" | jq -r '
-  map(
-    select(
-      # Skip devices that were suspended for io errors, reconnect will not help here
-      .suspended == false and
-      # Uncomment to select Secondary devices only
-      # .role == "Secondary" and
-      (.connections[]."connection-state" == "Connecting")
-    )
-    | {
-        name: .name,
-        "peer-node-id": .connections[]
-          | select(.["connection-state"] == "Connecting")
-          | ."peer-node-id"
-      }
-  )
-  # redundant, but required for array intersection calculation later
-  | unique
-  ')"
-  echo "${unhealthy_devices}"
-}
-
 echo "Starting Linstor per-satellite plunger"
 
 while true; do
@@ -63,40 +39,4 @@ while true; do
     drbdadm up "${secondary}" || echo "Command failed"
   ); done
 
-  # Detect devices that lost connection and can be simply reconnected
-  # This may be fixed in DRBD 9.2.13
-  # see https://github.com/LINBIT/drbd/blob/drbd-9.2/ChangeLog
-  connecting_devices1="$(get_drbd_connecting)"
-  if [ "${connecting_devices1}" != '[]' ]; then
-
-    # wait 10 seconds to avoid false positives
-    sleep 1 &
-    pid=$!
-    wait $pid
-
-    # and check again
-    connecting_devices2="$(get_drbd_connecting)"
-
-    export connecting_devices1 connecting_devices2
-    stuck_connecting="$(jq -rn '
-    env.connecting_devices1 | fromjson as $l1
-    | env.connecting_devices2 | fromjson as $l2
-    # calculate the intersection
-    | $l1 - ($l2 - $l1)
-    | .[]
-    # output as strings
-    | (.name) + " " + (."peer-node-id" | tostring)
-    ')"
-
-    while IFS= read -r path; do (
-      echo "Trying to reconnect secondary volume ${path}"
-      set -x
-      # shellcheck disable=SC2086
-      drbdsetup disconnect ${path} || echo "Command failed"
-      # shellcheck disable=SC2086
-      drbdsetup connect ${path} || echo "Command failed"
-    ) done <<< "$stuck_connecting"
-
-  fi
-
 done
diff --git a/packages/system/linstor/templates/cluster.yaml b/packages/system/linstor/templates/cluster.yaml
index e3f8bb80..68af90fd 100644
--- a/packages/system/linstor/templates/cluster.yaml
+++ b/packages/system/linstor/templates/cluster.yaml
@@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ spec:
     certManager:
       name: linstor-api-ca
       kind: Issuer
+  properties:
+  - name: DrbdOptions/Net/connect-int
+    value: "15"
+  - name: DrbdOptions/Net/ping-int
+    value: "15"
+  - name: DrbdOptions/Net/ping-timeout
+    value: "20"
+  - name: DrbdOptions/Net/timeout
+    value: "100"
   controller:
     enabled: true
     podTemplate: