You say "bye" first! no, you say "bye" first! how do you know when to close the connection? Dr Richard G. Clegg of Queen Mary University London talks us through this frustrating network problem.

nb As some eagleeyed commenters have spotted, Richard meant to say FIN FIN/ACK ACK for the shut down sequence.

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