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What You Will Learn

After reading this chapter, you should be able to answer the following questions:

Image What are the various stages of a communications session?

Image How does TCP regulate the flow of information between a source and destination machine?

Image What is a three-way handshake and what is its purpose?

What are the three uses for TCP sequence numbers?

What is a session? ...

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