Layer 4 Flashcards
1
Q
TCP
A
Transmission Control Protocol Connection oriented Three way handshake SYN SYN-ACK ACK
2
Q
UDP
A
User Datagram Protocol Connectionless Unreliable Unaware of dropped segments Audio and video
3
Q
Windowing
A
Allows clients to adjust amount of data sent in each segment
Continually adjusts
4
Q
Buffering
A
Occurs when devices such as routers allocate memory to store segments if bandwidth isnt readily available
5
Q
Examples of Layer 4 devices
A
TCP UDP WAN accelerators Load balancers Firewalls