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prizrak
prizrak

Reputation: 35

purpose of TCP connection teardown

TCP is a connection oriented protocol and by connection oriented what we really mean is the virtual connection.Then why do we need to terminate the connection on completion of the data exchange?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1162

Answers (1)

Maxim Egorushkin
Maxim Egorushkin

Reputation: 136355

TCP is a byte stream and the peers need to know when the byte stream ends. This is what TCP FIN segments are for - to tell the peer that it has received all data in the stream and that no more data will follow.

Upvotes: 1

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