TCP/IP In-Depth Description (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol)

Learn About One of the Technologies at the Foundation of the Internet

By Solomon Rothman, published Sep 20, 2005
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TCP/IP In-Depth Description (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol)

Every time you check your e-mail or browse to a homepage you are using TCP/IP.

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Takeaways
  • TCP/IP is a group of many separate individual protocols that work together.
  • In a local area network each individual system sends requests to a gateway.
  • Different types of data have specific port numbers under TCP.
Did You Know?
Domain names are actually English representations which have to be translated into IP addresses before a computer can display a web page.
Resources
  • Cisco Systems (large amount of TCP/IP technical information)Daryl's TCP/IP Primer (very detailed)W3C Schools (great basic TCP/IP Tutorial)What's my Ip Address?DNS Resources Directory
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