Alexander Gottwald wrote: > René Berber wrote: >> XWin only opens a couple of connections, with ssh -X it's only one >> connection. > > XWin opens no connection (except for xdmcp). It's a server and will only > react on incoming connections.
To clarify, and I knew when I wrote the above it wasn't quite correct, XWin opens many connections but mainly to itself or for listening -- that's what you'll see with netstat, but to find the cause of the original problem what we are interested is in connections between the 2 computers, here (if I'm not wrong) XWin will start a connection on the default xdmcp port then follow on another port. > The error results from a program which tries to open many connections at > a time (SYN request). these connections must be acknowledged by the > receiving end (SYN,ACK reply). as long as this reply was not received, > the connection is in a half-open state. Windows XP does only allow 10 of > these half-open connections. File sharing programs or worms which try to > send mass mail may cause this problem. I don't see any reason why XWin > would cause this behaviour. Exactly. Thanks for the explanation. -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/