Timers

Hello Team,

Could someone tell me what are timers in networks ?

for instance what are TCP timers? my netstat -o generates output :-

Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
Timer
tcp 0 0 smoothwall-or.:webcache 172.18.101.1:4812
TIME_WAIT timewait (42.62/0/0)

Now i really want to know what this timer is and what it means!!

Could someone help me?

Thanks a lot

Sidharth

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sidharth deshpande <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hello Team,

> Could someone tell me what are timers in networks ?

> for instance what are TCP timers? my netstat -o generates output :-

> Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
> Timer
> tcp 0 0 smoothwall-or.:webcache 172.18.101.1:4812
> TIME_WAIT timewait (42.62/0/0)

> Now i really want to know what this timer is and what it means!!

It says the tcp connection to your proxy server will be closed in
about 42.62 seconds it's in TIME_WAIT status. Dunno about those
0/0, the docs seem to be incomplete.

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sidharth deshpande wrote:

> Hello Team,
>
> Could someone tell me what are timers in networks ?
>
> for instance what are TCP timers? my netstat -o generates output :-
>
> Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
> Timer
> tcp 0 0 smoothwall-or.:webcache 172.18.101.1:4812
> TIME_WAIT timewait (42.62/0/0)
>
> Now i really want to know what this timer is and what it means!!
>
> Could someone help me?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Sidharth


watch the word wrap:::

http://www.kohala.com/start/tcpipiv1.html

http://www.awprofessional.com/isapi/product_id~
7B866675EF-50DC-4557-8595-CED80BE279F7%7D/selectDescTypeId~
7B06B328CA-921B-4395-945D-3078CA6F292A%7D/st~
7B7456E66E-0160-4842-BB78-A53DBFE39FA4%7D/session_id~
7B75D1D37E-3C9F-4161-9F3E-16C66B9BFFA7%7D/catalog/product.asp


but in short, timers are a part of the driver/IP stack that controls when
things happen. Things such as "while I haven't heard any data from you in
a while, I'll let you know I'm still here by sending an ACK packet"

my explanation is by no means complete, hence the 2nd url...do a find for
'timer' on that page.
hth
TroyC

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