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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Transport Layer Concepts

important concepts:

  • Connection-oriented and connectionless protocols

  • Ports and sockets

  • Multiplexing

Connection-Oriented and Connectionless Protocols

  • A connection-oriented protocol establishes and maintains a connection between communicating computers and monitors the state of that connection over the course of the transmission. In other words, each package of data sent across the network receives an acknowledgment, and the sending machine records status information to ensure that each package is received without errors, retransmitting the data if necessary. At the end of the transmission, the sending and receiving computers gracefully close the connection.

  • A connectionless protocol sends a one-way datagram to the destination and doesn't worry about officially notifying the destination machine that data is on the way. The destination machine receives the data and doesn't worry about returning status information to the source computer.

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