Tag: ACKs

You can take this quiz online at http://www.net-intro.com/quiz/ What is the primary problem the Transport (TCP)...

acknowledgement: When the receiving computer sends a notification back to the source computer indicating that data has...

In a sense, the purpose of the Transport layer is to compensate for the fact that the Link and Internetworking layers...

When a client application wants to make a connection to a remote computer, it is important that the connection is made...

The purpose of the Transport layer is to provide reliable connections between networked applications so those...

One of the key elements of the Transport layer is that the sending computer must hold on to all of the data it is...

As the destination computer receives the packets, it looks at the offset position from the beginning of the message so...

If you were to look at a packet going across one of many links between its source and destination computers, you would...

The next layer up from the Internetworking layer is the Transport layer. A key element of the Internetworking layer is...