CHAPTER 2
UDP
The previous chapter described modern network hardware as supporting the transmission of short messages called packets, which are usually no larger than a few thousand bytes. How can these tiny individual messages be combined to form the conversations that take place between a web browser and server or between an e-mail client and your ISP’s mail server?
The IP protocol is responsible only for attempting to deliver each packet to the correct machine. Two additional features are usually necessary if separate applications are to maintain conversations, and it is the job of the protocols built atop IP to provide these features.
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