Tracking and Understanding TCP States · woodstokTracking and Understanding TCP States 29 Dec 2013 Irrelevant Background During my Computer Networks course, I used to hate the person who illustrated the TCP State Transition Diagram. It was just too complicated. I skimmed over the section just enough to recognize keywords like SYN,ACK,CLOSED and the likes. I moved on and joined Cisco. One day, a senior colleague of mine told me that he was planni
