Understanding the TCP/IP protocol
In the TCP/IP protocol suite, there are dozens of different protocols, but the most important ones are TCP and IP. IP provides addressing, datagram routing, and other functions for connecting one machine to another, while TCP is responsible for managing connections and provides reliable data transport between processes on two machines. IP is located in the network layer (layer 3) in the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, whereas TCP is located in the transport layer (layer 4) of OSI.
Besides TCP, the other key protocol in the transport layer is UDP. You may ask what the differences between these two protocols are.
In brief, TCP has the following characteristics:
- This is a connection-oriented protocol: Before ...
Get Kali Linux 2 – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
