"Timed wait" is the final stage when a TCP connection is closed. TCP has the notion of "maximum segment lifetime" - how long a datagram might remain somewhere in the network. Before a connection is completely closed, it remains in the "timed wait" state for twice this maximum segment lifetime. The purpose is to allow any left-over or duplicate datagrams related to this connection to be delivered, so that they cannot be confused with data from new connections.
If you repeat the netstat command enough time later, you should not see any remnant of the connection in the "timed wait" state. -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org
