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Re: Need some explanations regarding connections



On Thursday 27 August 2009 15:41:46 Amar Cosic wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what exacly this connections means (example of
> netstat -nt):
>
> tcp6       0      0 ::1:60834               ::1:443  TIME_WAIT
> tcp6       0      0 ::1:60845               ::1:443  TIME_WAIT
> ...

That just means that you had a Ipv6 TCP connection from [::1]:60845 
(probably your browser) to [::1]:443 (which should be your local SSL web 
server), which is closed now. TIME_WAIT is your current connection 
state. See [1] for a state diagram and [2] for a bit more detailed 
description of TCP.

> Anythig I should worry about?

No.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tcp_state_diagram_fixed.svg
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol


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