[Orca-users] Re: TCP attempt fail rate

[Sean O'Neill]

At 10:37 AM 4/30/2002 -0700, Blair Zajac wrote:
>Looking at the SE source code which gets this from the kernel
>(RICHPse/include/mib.se)
>
>uint  tcpAttemptFails;  // # of dir. SYN-SENT/RCVD->CLOSED/LISTEN { tcp 7 }
>
>Does anybody know exactly what this measures?  It looks like it's the
>number of active connections the host is attempting to set up that fail
>per second.

Could this maybe be (or partially at least) attempted TCP opens to a port
that no longer exists ?  Not sure what the slash notation in the comment is
exactly trying to convey.


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Sean O'Neill