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What is Jason trying to accomplish here?

In TCP communications there are 8 flags; FIN, SYN, RST, PSH, ACK, URG, ECE, CWR. These flags have decimal numbers assigned to them:

FIN = 1

SYN = 2

RST = 4

PSH = 8

ACK = 16

URG = 32

ECE = 64

CWR = 128

Jason is the security administrator of ASPEN Communications. He analyzes some traffic using Wireshark and has enabled the following filters.

What is Jason trying to accomplish here?

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A.
SYN, FIN, URG and PSH

B.
SYN, SYN/ACK, ACK

C.
RST, PSH/URG, FIN

D.
ACK, ACK, SYN, URG

Explanation:
TCP.FLAGS==0x0x: In Decimal=2  –> SYN
TCP.FLAGS==0x12: In Decimal 2/16–>  SYN/ACK
TCP.FLAGS==0x10:In Decimal 16–> ACK  && ACK=1   && Not LEN———————————————->ACK

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