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Windows Server® 2008 TCP/IP Protocols and Services
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Windows Server® 2008 TCP/IP Protocols and Services

by Joseph Davies
January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
14h 16m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 10. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Basics

There are two protocols at the Transport Layer that TCP/IP applications typically use for transporting data: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP). This chapter describes the characteristics of TCP and the fields in the TCP header.

Introduction to TCP

TCP, defined in RFC 793, is the Transport Layer protocol that provides a reliable data-transfer service and a method to pass TCP-encapsulated data to an Application Layer protocol. TCP has the following characteristics:

  • Connection-oriented. Before data can be transferred, two Application ...

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