March 1993
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
27h 59m
English
The Transport Layer Interface (TLI) is the primary networking interface used in UNIX System V. It is accessed at user level through a library and at kernel level through a STREAMS message-based service interface. This chapter will present the transport interface as user-level applications view it.
The Transport Layer Interface presents a generic view of a network, corresponding to the transport level in the OSI seven-layer model of a network (see Figure 4.1).

Fig. 4.1. The OSI Model
The TLI was first provided in UNIX System V Release 3.0. A transport-level interface was chosen for two reasons. ...
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