Re: seq in tcp protocol

Aniruddha Bhattacharyya <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-newbie
Message-ID <CAOXuEsxyugU-Z2yVX-8T-OdAxJcxh0gWFMVhX0CNZqBHYDzS3Q@mail.gmail.com>
FIN flag is set to terminate a TCP session, similarly SYN flag is set
to indicate beginning of a TCP transmission.
So stream tear-down is initiated as soon as receiver gets a packet
with FIN flag set to 1. Though there are some intricacy and variation
of it.

http://www.fluffyspider.com/resources/papers/TTCPIMG00011.GIF


http://www.fluffyspider.com/resources/papers/t_tcp.html

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:59 AM, ishare <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 02:31:18PM +0100, Kristof Provost wrote:
>> On 2013-03-22 21:30:08 (+0800), ishare <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >   If I send a  buffer with tcp protocol , the data is separated to serveral packets ,
>> >   each packet will have a seq number with it ,which ensures the recipient read this buffer
>> >   in right orfer .
>> >
>> >   my question is : how the recipient know which is the end packet of this queue ? Is there
>> >   data indicate the total quantity of packets composing this buffer ?
>> >
>> TCP is a stream protocol. There is no concept (at the application level
>> anyway) of packets in TCP. The receiving TCP/IP stack is free to offer
>> the data to the application whenever it decides to, in however many
>> lumps as it decides to. Similarly, the sending TCP/IP stack may decide
>> to wait to send data until it's received more from the sending
>> application before packaging it and sending it to the receiver.
>
>   When one  send  system api is called , will  all  data in the buffer
>   be sent out together at one time ?
>
>
>>
>> You may find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s_algorithm
>> interesting.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kristof
>>
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