From: root@127.0.0.1   
      
   Rayne wrote:   
      
   > I was looking at some FTP file transfer traffic, and noticed that in   
   > a couple of these file transfers, the FIN flag is set in the TCP   
   > header of a data packet carrying the file contents. I'm curious to   
   > know what this means and why this would occur, because I thought FIN   
   > flags are not usually set in data packets.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol#Conn   
   ction_termination   
      
   I suppose the data packet carrying the FIN flag is the last packet   
   in that specific transmission?   
      
   keywords: piggyback FIN   
      
   cf. e.g. RFC1379   
      
   https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1379   
      
   Regards.   
      
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