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What are some responsibilities of a transport layer protocol?
What are some responsibilities of a transport layer protocol?
Create process-to-process communication, provide control mechanisms at the transport level, and provide error control to some extent.
How does UDP accomplish process-to-process communication?
How does UDP accomplish process-to-process communication?
UDP uses port numbers.
What are the disadvantages of UDP?
What are the disadvantages of UDP?
No flow control mechanism, no acknowledgment for received packets, and it silently drops packets if an error is detected.
Why would a process want to use UDP despite its disadvantages?
Why would a process want to use UDP despite its disadvantages?
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What is the format of a UDP user datagram and what information does it contain?
What is the format of a UDP user datagram and what information does it contain?
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