Can you explain why in TCP a SYN, SYN + ACK, and FIN segment each consume a

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Can you explain why in TCP a SYN, SYN + ACK, and FIN segment each consume a sequence number, but an ACK segment carrying no data does not consume a sequence number?

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Data Communications and Networking

ISBN: 978-0073376226

5th edition

Authors: Behrouz A. Forouzan

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