TcpExtListenOverflows rose by 4,812 during a five-minute traffic burst. The kernel log mentioned a possible SYN flood, yet the packet capture showed ordinary clients completing handshakes. The counter proves that a listening socket could not admit another connection; it does not identify the cause by itself.

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