diff --git a/src/main/java/io/asyncer/r2dbc/mysql/client/Client.java b/src/main/java/io/asyncer/r2dbc/mysql/client/Client.java
index 08e2f8b7e..db19ff853 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/asyncer/r2dbc/mysql/client/Client.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/asyncer/r2dbc/mysql/client/Client.java
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 import io.asyncer.r2dbc.mysql.message.server.ServerMessage;
 import io.netty.buffer.ByteBufAllocator;
 import io.netty.channel.ChannelOption;
+import io.netty.util.internal.logging.InternalLogger;
+import io.netty.util.internal.logging.InternalLoggerFactory;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
 import reactor.core.publisher.Flux;
 import reactor.core.publisher.Mono;
@@ -39,6 +41,7 @@
  * An abstraction that wraps the networking part of exchanging methods.
  */
 public interface Client {
+    InternalLogger logger = InternalLoggerFactory.getInstance(Client.class);
 
     /**
      * Perform an exchange of a request message. Calling this method while a previous exchange is active will
@@ -133,8 +136,7 @@ static Mono<Client> connect(MySqlSslConfiguration ssl, SocketAddress address, bo
         }
 
         if (socketTimeout != null) {
-            tcpClient = tcpClient.option(ChannelOption.SO_TIMEOUT,
-                Math.toIntExact(socketTimeout.toMillis()));
+            logger.warn("Socket timeout is not supported by the underlying connection and will be ignored.");
         }
 
         if (address instanceof InetSocketAddress) {