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RFC 1006 ACTIVE/PASSIVE

What is the difference between ACTIVE and PASSIVE connect in RFC 1006 TCP connections?

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It's explained here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc793

A passive OPEN request means that the process wants to accept incoming connection requests rather than attempting to initiate a connection.

In short passive OPEN are listen() and active OPEN are connect().

tonfa  2009-10-13 13:15:11

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