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- User Datagram Protocol
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- Jonathan B. Postel
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- 2 May 1979
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- Information Sciences Institute
- University of Southern California
- 4676 Admiralty Way
- Marina del Rey, California 90291
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- (213) 822-1511
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- IEN-88 J. Postel
- ISI
- 2 May 1979
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- User Datagram Protocol
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- Introduction
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- This User Datagram Protocol is defined to make available a datagram mode
- of packet-switched computer communication in the environment of an
- interconnected set of computer networks. This protocol assumes that the
- Internet Protocol (IN) [1] is used as the underlying protocol.
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- This protocol provides a procedure for application programs to send
- messages to other programs with a minimum of protocol mechanism. The
- messages delivery is unordered and unreliable. Applications requiring
- ordered reliable delivery of streams of data should use the Transmission
- Control Protocol (TCP) [2].
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- Format
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- 0 15 16 31
- +---------------+---------------+
- ! Source ! Destination !
- ! Port ! Port !
- +---------------+---------------+
- ! ! !
- ! Length ! Checksum !
- +---------------+---------------+
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- ! data octets .....
- +------------ ...
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- User Datagram Header Format
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- Fields
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- Source Port is an optional field, when meaningful, it indicates the port
- of the sending process, and may be assumed to be the port to which a
- reply should be addressed in the absence of any other information. If
- not used, a value of zero is inserted.
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- Destination Port has a meaning within the context of a particular
- internet destination address.
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- Postel [page 1]
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- Fields
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- Length is the length in octets of this user datagram including this
- header and the data. (This means the minimum value of the length is
- four.)
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- Checksum is the 16-bit one's complement of the one's complement sum of
- the source address and destination address fields from the internet
- header, the fields above, and the data, padded with zero octets at the
- end to make a multiple of two octets.
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- If the computed checksum is zero, it is transmitted as all ones (the
- equivalent in one's complement arithmetic). An all zero transmitted
- checksum value means that the transmitter generated no checksum (for
- debugging or for higher level protocols that don't care).
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- User Interface
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- A user interface should allow
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- the creation of new receive ports,
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- receive operations on the receive ports that return the data octets
- and an indication of source port, if any,
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- and an operation that allows a datagram to be sent, specifying the
- data and source port to be sent.
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- Protocol Application
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- The major use of this protocol is the Internet Name Server [3].
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- Protocol Number
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- This is protocol 17 (21 octal) when used in the Internet Protocol.
- Other protocol numbers are listed in [4].
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- References
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- References
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- [1] Postel, J., "Internet Datagram Protocol -- Version 4," IEN-80,
- USC-Information Sciences Institute, February 1979.
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- [2] Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol -- Version 4,"
- IEN-81, USC-Information Sciences Institute, February 1979.
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- [3] Postel, J., "Internet Name Server," USC-Information Sciences
- Institute, IEN-89, May 1979.
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- [4] Postel, J., "Assigned Numbers," USC-Information Sciences
- Institute, RFC-755, IEN-93, May 1979.
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- Postel [page 3]
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