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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 explains here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc793

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



In short passive OPEN is listen()

, and active OPEN - connect()

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