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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 09:25:34 -0700
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- From: bradley@MARCVM.MARC.USDA.GOV
- Subject: Re: what is tcp
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- Literally: Transmission Control Protocol. Usually used with IP:
- Internet Protocol. TCP is an implementation of layer 4 (TRANSPORT) of the
- ISO seven layer network model while IP is an implementation of layer 5 or
- the NETWORK layer. In english, TCP provides program to program
- communications on a network. IP breaks these program links into packets
- for sending, and then puts them back together on the other end in the
- correct order. (kind of like Star Trek "beam me up Scotty" and "scrambling
- a man's molecules and sending them accross the universe" :-)
- Common Use: It has become common to refer to the suite of programs that
- are common on TCP/IP networks as TCP/IP. (ie TELNET, FTP, SNMP, NFS, etc.)
- Ironically, some of these programs do not use TCP but thats history for
- you.
- Hope this helps.
-
- >I would like to know what is TCP-IP?
-