TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is “a Connection Oriented Transport Layer (Layer4) protocol for reliable communication between network devices” TCPv4 was published in RFC-793 in 1981 and is still the current version. TCP is a connection oriented full-featured transport layer protocol that provides all the functions needed by a typical application for the reliable transportation of data across an internetwork. TCP is a host-to-host protocol. TCP provides reliable communication with a mechanism called Positive Acknowledgement with Re-transmission(PAR) employing the 3-way Handshake. 3-way Handshake Process TCP uses a process called 3-way Handshake for reliable communication. In 3-way Handshake process, three TCP segments are Read More …
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