What happens when there is a TCP half closed connection ? How long the connection remains alive before it gets closed ? Is there a specific setting in ASA to manage half closed TCP sessions ? These are the questions asked to me during network securi...

I have gone through the connection flag alphabets from Cisco website but I could not correlate them with real time connection logs. Someone please share some documents which has the clear info. Thanks in advance,, 

Why Prefix-list are used instead of access-list in routing protocols ? what make the difference ? Can we use access-list in routing protocols ?

How are data center prefixes advertised to branch offices and vise versa with BGP?