Q. 12 Consider a TCP client and a TCP server running on two different machines. After completing data transfer, the TCP client calls close to terminate the connection and a FIN segment is sent to the TCP server. Server-side TCP responds by sending an ACK which is received by the client-side TCP. As per the TCP connection state diagram(RFC 793), in which state does the client side TCP connection wait for the FIN from the server-side TCP?
(A) LAST-ACK
(B) TIME-WAIT
(C) FIN-WAIT-1
(D) FIN-WAIT-2
Answer: (D)
Explanation:
