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TCP/IP Illustrated
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TCP/IP Illustrated

by W. Richard Stevens, Gary R. Wright
January 1995
Intermediate to advanced
1200 pages
31h 3m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 23. UDP: User Datagram Protocol

23.1. Introduction

The User Datagram Protocol, or UDP, is a simple, datagram-oriented, transport-layer protocol: each output operation by a process produces exactly one UDP datagram, which causes one IP datagram to be sent.

A process accesses UDP by creating a socket of type SOCK_DGRAM in the Internet domain. By default the socket is termed unconnected. Each time the process sends a datagram it must specify the destination IP address and port number. Each time a datagram is received for the socket, the process can receive the source IP address and port number from the datagram.

We mentioned in Section 22.5 that a UDP socket can also be connected to one particular IP address and port number. ...

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