What does it mean when windows netstat -ano shows this, and why there are four (more than 1).
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Look at the Technet Info for netstat.
Also, if you want to have a closer look, check the RFC 793 or this article.
TIME_WAIT is an often misunderstood state in the TCP state transition diagram. It's a state that some sockets can enter and remain in for a relatively long length of time, if you have enough socket's in TIME_WAIT then your ability to create new socket connections may be affected and this can affect the scalability of your client server system. There is often some misunderstanding about how and why a socket ends up in TIME_WAIT in the first place, there shouldn't be, it's not magical.
