diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d9204ad..95e33d8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -965,6 +965,16 @@ roxy servers provide varying levels of functionality, security, and privacy depe
What is TCP? How it works? What is the 3 way handshake?
+ +TCP 3-way handshake or three-way handshake is a process which is used in a TCP/IP network to make a connection between server and client. + +A three-way handshake is primarily used to create a TCP socket connection. It works when: + +- A client node sends a SYN data packet over an IP network to a server on the same or an external network. The objective of this packet is to ask/infer if the server is open for new connections. +- The target server must have open ports that can accept and initiate new connections. When the server receives the SYN packet from the client node, it responds and returns a confirmation receipt – the ACK packet or SYN/ACK packet. +- The client node receives the SYN/ACK from the server and responds with an ACK packet. + +