2.5 Transporting Packets Flashcards
1
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what are some problems that may be associated with the arrival of a packet (for a message)
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- the packets arrive out of order
- the packets don’t have the original set of data
- some packets are lost and not all of them arrive
- a packet(s) is duplicated
2
Q
TCP stands for
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transmission control protocol
3
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Transmission Control Protocol
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the data transport protocol that’s most commonly used on top of IP and it includes strategies for packet ordering, retransmission, and data integrity –> basically she helps there not be problems with the arrival of packets
4
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UDP stands for
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user datagram protocol
5
Q
user datagram protocol
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an alternative protocol for TCP detects corrupt data in packets but does not solve other problems of packet delivery such as lost or out of order packets, but offers faster data transpor
6
Q
if a UDP packet is sent over IP what is it called instead of a packet
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UDP segment
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