What exactly does 'estabresets' mean?

From: michael gorsuch (michael.gorsuch_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/29/05 

Date: 29 Jul 2005 07:04:52 -0700

I recently upgraded my set of web servers from Redhat Enterprise Linux
2.1 to 3.0.

Ever since then, I have been noting a large amount of 'estabresets' on
my SNMP graphs. Can anyone fill me in on what this means?

When I perform a 'netstat -s', I see a growing number of 'resets
recieved'. I'm assuming that this numbers is the same thing?

Does this mean that I'm trying to connect outbound to a service and
recieving resets because a service is not available?

Thanks all,

Michael