How does TCP connection terminate if one of the machine dies?

Question

If a TCP connection is established between two hosts (A & B), and lets say host A has sent 5 octets to host B, and then the host B crashes (due to unknown reason). The host

Answer 1

Please follow this link

now a very simple answer to your question in my view is, The connection will be timed out and will be closed. another possibility that exists is that some ICMP error might be generated due to due un-responsive machine.

Also, if the crashed machine is online again, then the procedure described in the link i just pasted above will be observed.