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7 - Transport Layer by tigist hidru is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The transport layer ensures reliable data transfer between processes on different hosts, utilizing protocols like TCP and UDP for communication. It handles addressing through port numbers and socket addresses, enabling multiplexing and demultiplexing of data. Reliability mechanisms, flow control, and error control are critical components of transport layer protocols, particularly in TCP, which is connection-oriented and reliable, while UDP is connectionless and simpler.
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- tigist hidru
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- EN