Layer 4 Flashcards

1
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TCP

A
Transmission Control Protocol
Connection oriented
Three way handshake 
SYN
SYN-ACK
ACK
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UDP

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User Datagram Protocol
Connectionless
Unreliable
Unaware of dropped segments
Audio and video
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3
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Windowing

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Allows clients to adjust amount of data sent in each segment

Continually adjusts

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4
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Buffering

A

Occurs when devices such as routers allocate memory to store segments if bandwidth isnt readily available

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5
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Examples of Layer 4 devices

A
TCP
UDP
WAN accelerators
Load balancers
Firewalls
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