Summary
UDP provides a connectionless and unreliable delivery service for applications that do not require the guaranteed delivery service of TCP. Application Layer protocols use UDP for lightweight interaction, for broadcast or multicast traffic, or when the Application Layer protocol provides its own reliable delivery service. The UDP header provides a checksum and source and destination port numbers to multiplex UDP message data to the proper Application Layer protocol.
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