> But nothing was listen()'ing on the port and nothing accept()'ed the > connection. > > If you had similar code running on two different machines, each of which > attempted connections to the other machine, I would expect that they > would never connect because of the asymetric nature of the TCP SYN, > SYN/ACK, ACK connection sequence. You don't have to listen to do a connect. Two programs (on different machines or not) that are doing cross connects works, too. +-DLS -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html