Protocols

What is a protocol?

A protocol is a set of rules about the format of the messages exchanged between computers. The rules are agreed by both the sender and the receiver/recipient.

TCP/IP protocol suite

TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
IP: Internet Protocol
Protocol Suite: a set of protocols, a group of protocols. There are a number of protocols.TCP/IP protocol suite is named after the most foundational protocols in the suite, the TCP and the IP.
TCP/IP protocol stack/Layer.
The TCP/IP protocol stack/Layer is an abstraction of the functionality of the TCP/IP protocol suite. It is a conceptual model. Those protocols provide end-to-end data communication specifying how data should be packetized, addressed, transmitted, routed, and received. There are 4 layers

Layer
Application
Transport
Network/IP layer
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