7.5 Flow Control
When we looked at the Transport layer, we talked about the “window size”, which was the amount of data that the...
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7.4 The IMAP Protocol for Retrieving Mail
The HTTP protocol is only one of many client/server application protocols used on the Internet. Another common...
7.3 Exploring the HTTP Protocol
In this section we will manually exercise the HTTP protocol by pretending to be a web browser and sending HTTP...
7.2 Application Layer Protocols
Just like people talking on telephones, each pair of network applications needs a set of rules that govern the...
7.1 Client and Server Applications
It is important to remember that two parts are required for a networked application to function. The architecture for...
7 Application Layer
We have been working from the bottom to the top of our fourlayer TCP/IP network model and we are finally at the top....
6.8 Questions-Chapter 6
You can take this quiz online at http://www.net-intro.com/quiz/ What is the primary problem the Transport (TCP)...
6.7 Glossary-Chapter 6
acknowledgement: When the receiving computer sends a notification back to the source computer indicating that data has...
6.6 Summary-Chapter 6
In a sense, the purpose of the Transport layer is to compensate for the fact that the Link and Internetworking layers...
6.5 Server Applications and Ports
When a client application wants to make a connection to a remote computer, it is important that the connection is made...
6.4 Application Clients and Servers
The purpose of the Transport layer is to provide reliable connections between networked applications so those...
6.3 The Transport Layer In Operation
One of the key elements of the Transport layer is that the sending computer must hold on to all of the data it is...
6.2 Packet Reassembly and Retransmis- sion
As the destination computer receives the packets, it looks at the offset position from the beginning of the message so...
6.1 Packet Headers
If you were to look at a packet going across one of many links between its source and destination computers, you would...
6. Transport Layer
The next layer up from the Internetworking layer is the Transport layer. A key element of the Internetworking layer is...
