This doesn't seem to be the case on my machine. About an hour after I sent
that email, I checked again, and had 294 TIME_WAIT connections. I also
notice that when I ran systat netstat a 'Kernel state change' message
apears on the bottom of the screen. 

Erik Huizing			4th year Computer Science
huizing@cpsc.ucalgary.ca	Office: MS 142 Ph: 220-5768
http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~huizing

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Thilo Manske wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 09:10:16PM -0700, Erik Huizing wrote:
> To quote RFC 793 "Transmission Control Protocol.":
>     TIME-WAIT - represents waiting for enough time to pass to be sure
>     the remote TCP received the acknowledgment of its connection
>     termination request.
> 
> NB: On NetBSD 1.3 I usually had some "zombie" connections wich were stuck
> in *_WAIT stages forever.
> -- 
> Dies ist Thilos Unix Signature! Viel Spass damit.
>