What is the Status field in the Connection Tab?
 

Sorry for the dumb question for those who know...but in the connection screen there appears either an "Incoming" or "Outgoing" status for the host...what causes one to appear over the other?...Sometimes when i connect I usually get 3 outgoing host...but then other times i get like 10-15 incoming hosts...so i am not sure what that is about...

thanks for your help
-e

Incoming host means the remote host started the connection. Outgoing host means you started the connection. That's more or less all that's to it. Firewalled hosts don't accept incoming connections.