September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
8h 53m
English
Content preview from Solaris™ 9 Network Administrator Exam Cram™ 2 (Exam CX-310-044)
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Chapter 9. TCP and UDP
Terms you'll need to understand:
Buffered Transfer
Congestion Window
Full-Duplex
Large Window
Piggybacking
TCP Segment
Three-Way Handshake
Virtual Circuit
Window Advertisement
Concepts you'll need to master:
Distinguish among protocol characteristics of the transport layer
Explain the fundamentals of TCP and UDP
TCP and UDP are the two main protocols that operate at the Transport layer of the TCP/IP model. The Transport layer provides an end-to-end service for application data—that is, from the source to the destination. TCP and UDP are both delivered as part of the Solaris 9 operating system kernel.
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