Jason Anthony Guy4d ago

Can someone with a better grasp of networking explain this?

https://photon.codes/blog/we-found-a-ticking-time-bomb-in-macos-tcp-networking

Something feels off about it, and I can’t quite put my finger on it.

Also, my Tahoe laptop system currently has an uptime of 83 days. I’m unclear if this is talking about total uptime, or uptime minus sleep time. And, does it require constant network connections within a window or is the usual “user level” network pattern enough?

We Found a Ticking Time Bomb in macOS TCP Networking — It Detonates After Exactly 49 Days - Photon Blog

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Show threadKen McLeod
@JasonAnthonyGuy In Terminal, you can see how many connections are in the TIME_WAIT state with this command: `netstat -an | grep -c TIME_WAIT`. If that number only increases over time and never goes back down, then you are experiencing the issue. Normally the number should return to 0 as connections are closed.
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