netstat -s

[David C. chipman]

	Hi Shinoj, 

		The backlog is a part of the TCP connection algorithm.
Since TCP uses what is called three-way-handshaking to initialize a new
connection, if the process on the receiving system does not respond
fast enough to incoming connection requests, then they need to be
stored in the kernel, until the process can get around to acknowledging 
them. That is what the "back log" is for. Not having used netstat (in
ages, at least), I'm guessing that what you are seeing is the number of
packages in the 'backlog' at the time. I hope this helps, 

			-David Chipman
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