TCP Characteristics
Lesson 7: TCP Operation
TCP is commonly touted as being a reliable transport mechanism, as compared to its unreliable counterpart, UDP. Examination of the TCP segment header format, as shown in Figure 1-25, provides valuable insight into how this reliability happens.
Figure 1-25 TCP Segment Header Format
The purposes of the fields found in a TCP segment header are as follows:
Source Port field: The Source Port field is a 16-bit ...
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