Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Packet Capture: Seeing The TCP Three Way Handshake In Wireshark

This is just TCP.  It takes a "three way handshake" for a connection to be established.  It starts with a SYN from the device that starts the conversation, then a SYN ACK from the receiving end, and finishes with an ACK from the sending end.  See below what you would see in Wireshark:

10.3.1.53 sends a SYN packet to 10.1.2.5:

10.1.2.5 sends a SYN ACK back to 10.3.1.53:

10.3.1.53 sends an ACK packet back to 10.1.2.5:

And that is what they call the three way handshake for TCP.

1 comment:

  1. SYN
    SYN/ACK
    ACK
    Data: Excellent post Shane! Very clear and concise!
    FIN
    ACK
    FIN
    ACK

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