13. TCP Connection Management
13.1. Introduction
TCP is a unicast connection-oriented protocol. Before either end can send data to the other, a connection must be established between them. In this chapter, we take a detailed look at what a TCP connection is, how it is established, and how it is terminated. Recall that TCP’s service model is a byte stream. TCP detects and repairs essentially all the data transfer problems that may be introduced by packet loss, duplication, or errors at the IP layer (or below).
Because of its management of connection state (information about the connection kept by both endpoints), TCP is a considerably more complicated protocol than UDP (see Chapter 10). UDP is a connectionless protocol that involves no connection ...
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