23.11. Wrap-Up
In this chapter, we presented both connection-oriented and connectionless networking techniques. You learned that the Internet is an “unreliable” network that simply transmits packets of data. We discussed two protocols for transmitting packets over the Internet—the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). You learned that TCP is a connection-oriented communication protocol that guarantees sent packets will arrive at the intended receiver undamaged and in the correct sequence. You also learned that UDP is typically used in certain types of performance-oriented applications because it incurs minimum overhead for communicating between applications. We presented some of .NET’s capabilities for implementing ...
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