Chapter 24. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Chapter 25.) The transport layer is immediately below the application layer. Consumers using the service of the protocol are applications, and they reach the services of the TCP protocol instance over the socket interface introduced in Chapters 26 and 27. To implement the transport service, the TCP layer uses the Internet Protocol (IP). It provides an unreliable, connectionless datagram service, as described in Chapter 14. |
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