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Network Analysis Using Wireshark 2 Cookbook - Second Edition
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Network Analysis Using Wireshark 2 Cookbook - Second Edition

by Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Yoram Orzach, Yogesh Ramdoss
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
17h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Network Analysis Using Wireshark 2 Cookbook - Second Edition

UDP principle of operation

UDP is a lightweight transport layer protocol that works on a best effort basis. UDP is a good choice of transport layer protocol for end applications that can tolerate packet loss or if the reliability can be taken care of at the application layer. For example, Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), which is a simple file transfer protocol, leverages UDP as the transport layer protocol. TFTP sends acknowledgement for each block of datagrams received at the application layer. So, even though UDP does not have an inbuilt reliability mechanism, such applications can still use UDP as the transport layer protocol.

The protocol field of the IP header will be set to 17 for UDP. The format of the UDP header is as follows: ...

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ISBN: 9781786461674