diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioAcceptedSocketChannel.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioAcceptedSocketChannel.java
index 8be02c0759..7b94f8e9c9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioAcceptedSocketChannel.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioAcceptedSocketChannel.java
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ final class NioAcceptedSocketChannel extends NioSocketChannel {
 
         this.bossThread = bossThread;
 
+        setConnected();
         fireChannelOpen(this);
         fireChannelBound(this, getLocalAddress());
         fireChannelConnected(this, getRemoteAddress());
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioClientSocketPipelineSink.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioClientSocketPipelineSink.java
index b9ea4c0f1c..8dbc8e01ec 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioClientSocketPipelineSink.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioClientSocketPipelineSink.java
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ class NioClientSocketPipelineSink extends AbstractChannelSink {
         try {
             channel.socket.socket().bind(localAddress);
             channel.boundManually = true;
+            channel.setBound();
             future.setSuccess();
             fireChannelBound(channel, channel.getLocalAddress());
         } catch (Throwable t) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioSocketChannel.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioSocketChannel.java
index 7e82ba2879..cd82015903 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioSocketChannel.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioSocketChannel.java
@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ import org.jboss.netty.util.internal.ThreadLocalBoolean;
 class NioSocketChannel extends AbstractChannel
                                 implements org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.SocketChannel {
 
+    private static final int ST_OPEN = 0;
+    private static final int ST_BOUND = 1;
+    private static final int ST_CONNECTED = 2;
+    private static final int ST_CLOSED = -1;
+    private volatile int state = ST_OPEN;
+
     final SocketChannel socket;
     final NioWorker worker;
     private final NioSocketChannelConfig config;
@@ -108,12 +114,33 @@ class NioSocketChannel extends AbstractChannel
         return remoteAddress;
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public boolean isOpen() {
+        return state >= ST_OPEN;
+    }
+
     public boolean isBound() {
-        return isOpen() && socket.socket().isBound();
+        return state >= ST_BOUND;
     }
 
     public boolean isConnected() {
-        return isOpen() && socket.isConnected();
+        return state == ST_CONNECTED;
+    }
+
+    final void setBound() {
+        assert state == ST_OPEN;
+        state = ST_BOUND;
+    }
+
+    final void setConnected() {
+        assert state == ST_OPEN || state == ST_BOUND;
+        state = ST_CONNECTED;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected boolean setClosed() {
+        state = ST_CLOSED;
+        return super.setClosed();
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -155,11 +182,6 @@ class NioSocketChannel extends AbstractChannel
         super.setInterestOpsNow(interestOps);
     }
 
-    @Override
-    protected boolean setClosed() {
-        return super.setClosed();
-    }
-
     @Override
     public ChannelFuture write(Object message, SocketAddress remoteAddress) {
         if (remoteAddress == null || remoteAddress.equals(getRemoteAddress())) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioWorker.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioWorker.java
index 9af14ad5a2..ba257ab7ee 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioWorker.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioWorker.java
@@ -772,6 +772,7 @@ class NioWorker implements Runnable {
             }
 
             if (!server) {
+                channel.setConnected();
                 if (!((NioClientSocketChannel) channel).boundManually) {
                     fireChannelBound(channel, localAddress);
                 }