Re: not listening

Walter Roberson wrote:

Nothing listening for *new* connections on any port,
but you sure have something listening for returning packets.

Now would you please read RFC 793 and maybe also the POSIX standard to
clearly understand what "listening" means in terms of TCP/IP communication?
.

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