Answer by Keith Winstein on Quora, A lot of people ask this question and think in these terms, but here's a different point of view. TCP and UDP are not at the same level of abstraction and they're ...

As everyone know that TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol) are internet protocols which are used for communication through internet. The communication takes places ...

The two most common transport layer protocols are the transmission control protocol (TCP) and the user datagram protocol (UDP). One of the main differences between the two protocols is reliability.

In the last issue we started following a packet's journey from the wire up to the higher levels of network stack processing. We left the packet at the end of layer 3 processing, where IP has ...

Do you remember when we used multi-protocol routing for IPX, AppleTalk, and TCP/IP running on the same network? In the 1980s and early 1990s many enterprises had multiple protocols running on the ...

What is TCP/UDP port 27? I've looked it up in IANA's list of well-known ports and it came up as nsw-fe, or more appropriately, "NSW User System FE", but just what the hell is it? I've been told it was ...