On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 12:26 -0700, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> However, one important point along the lines of what you were saying is:
> TCP can be conveniently implemented on top of UDP.
That's what NFS does. For reasons I'm not familiar with, it uses UDP
with its own reliability management rather than TCP.
> You could also say
> that UDP is nothing but IP with port numbers.
Port numbers, length and a checksum. The checksum is important because
the IP checksum only covers the IP headers, where the UDP checksum is
across the whole datagram.
Here's a handy tool for you packet sniffers:
http://www.sans.org/resources/tcpip.pdf
Corey
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