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TCP, UDP, and ICMP

TCP, UDP, and ICMP

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TCP, UDP, and ICMP

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- It takes a lot of software and hardware working together to make the internet work. And the challenge we run into is that we have to make stuff that works together, that speaks the same language. So we use the term protocol. A protocol is nothing more than a set of rules that allow different things to work together. For example, I don't care if you have a Windows system or a Mac, or a little camera running around, they can all use IP addressing, because they're all designed to work with the IP protocol. Now, IP is great, but that only gets addresses to individual devices. So we have lots of other protocols. Most of the time when we talk about what the internet is, we use a protocol called TCP/IP. That stands for Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol. So really what you're showing here, that slash shows that we have two different protocols working together to help get the data between your systems. Now, the reason we call it TCP/IP is because almost all the data that we…

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