TCP data communication

Once the three-way connection is established, the data is communicated by exchanging the segments and the PUSH flag is set to indicate that the data flows on a connection as a stream of octets, as shown in the following figure:

TCP data communication

Select packet#4 from the normal-connection.pcap file as shown in the following screenshot; expand the TCP section in the Packet Details pane:

TCP data communication

As you can see in the preceding screenshot:

  1. The server is sending data to the client as shown in the packet.
  2. The server sets tcp.flags.push = 1.
  3. The server sets tcp.flags.ack ...

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