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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

TCP/IP

TCP/IP

  • stands for Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
  • it is the communication protocol for the Internet
  • defines how electronic devices (like computer) should be connected to the Intenet, and how data should be transmiited between them
  • inside the TCP/IP standart there are several protocols for handling data communication:
- TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) communication between applications
- UDP (User Datagram Protocol) simple communication between application
- IP (Internet Protocol) communication between computers
- ICMP (Internet Protocol Message Protocol) for errors and statistics
- DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) for dynamic addressing

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