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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: Info wanted on TCP/IP vs OSI 7 layer
- Message-ID: <16655@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:55:27 GMT
- References: <SALKIELD.93Jan26224429@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk> <1993Jan27.115319.21112W@lumina.edb.tih.no>
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- >Almost any computer networks textbook will spend a page or two stating
- >that TCP corresponds to OSI Transport, IP to OSI net, but IP is
- >connectionless while OSI is CO. That's about it - sometimes I wonder
- >how they can spend several pages saying nothing more.
-
- I wish they'd spend a few pages saying something *correct*, then - as
- far as I know, OSI has both connection-oriented *and* connectionless
- network-layer protocols (and it also has, as I remember, a
- connectionless *transport* protocol, akin to UDP).
-