What exactly does 'estabresets' mean?

I recently upgraded my set of web servers from Redhat Enterprise Linux
2.1 to 3.0.

Ever since then, I have been noting a large amount of 'estabresets' on
my SNMP graphs. Can anyone fill me in on what this means?

When I perform a 'netstat -s', I see a growing number of 'resets
recieved'. I'm assuming that this numbers is the same thing?

Does this mean that I'm trying to connect outbound to a service and
recieving resets because a service is not available?

Thanks all,

Michael

In comp.os.linux.networking michael gorsuch <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> I recently upgraded my set of web servers from Redhat Enterprise Linux
> 2.1 to 3.0.

> Ever since then, I have been noting a large amount of 'estabresets' on
> my SNMP graphs. Can anyone fill me in on what this means?

"estabresets"

The number of times TCP connections have made a direct transition
to CLOSED state from ESTABLISHED state or CLOSE-WAIT state.

It's about TCP connection termination, you could try a google
search for some docu about it.

[..]

--
Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94)
mail: echo (E-Mail Removed) | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
#bofh excuse 369: Virus transmitted from computer to sysadmins.