The IT Stuff

1. TCP(Transmission Control Protocol).

TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is the most commonly used protocol on the Internet. The reason for this is because TCP offers error correction. When the TCP protocol is used there is a “guaranteed delivery.” This is due largely in part to a method called “flow control.” Flow control determines when data [...]

The four layers of the TCP/IP model are:

Application (Process)
Host-to-host (Transport)
Internet
Network Access (Physical and Data link)

The two protocols that function at the host-to-host layer of the TCP/IP model are TCP and UDP. (TCP is a connection-oriented, reliable protocol. UDP is a connectionless and unacknowledged protocol.).The protocol number for TCP is 6. The protocol number for UDP [...]