On Thursday 05 May 2016 11:14:29 Richard Ryniker wrote: > "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.
I see, thank you. It did. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- 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
