January 2013
Beginner to intermediate
576 pages
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English
The DoD model is basically a condensed version of the OSI model—it's composed of four, instead of seven, layers:
Figure 2.1 compares the DoD model and the OSI reference model. As you can see, the two are similar in concept, but each has a different number of layers with different names.
FIGURE 2.1 The DoD and OSI models

When the different protocols in the IP stack are discussed, the layers of the OSI and DoD models are interchangeable. In ...
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