[Gllug] TCP connections not closing

[Richard Cottrill]

>  Yes I'm aware about that, I've seen it before.
>  What I don't get is why those particular connections are still hanging
>  off when other ones have timed-out? And probably this is basic tcp stuff,
>  but which machine sets the TTL, the web server or the client?

TTL is an IP layer thing, so it's connectionless and set by whichever 
machine sends that particular packet; ie bot the client and websever 
will set TTL for 'their' packets.


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