TCP/IP Features
TCP/IP includes many important features that you'll learn about in this book. In particular, pay close attention to the way the TCP/IP protocol suite addresses the following problems:
Logical addressing
Routing
Name service
Error control and flow control
Application support
These issues are at the heart of TCP/IP. The following sections introduce these important features. You'll learn more about these features later in this book.
Logical Addressing
A network adapter has a unique and permanent physical address. The physical address is a number that was given to the card at the factory. On a local area network, low-lying hardware-conscious protocols deliver data across the physical network using the adapter's physical address. There ...
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