What is tcp/ip?
Connection to the Internet these days has become so easy and user-friendly that we tend to forget the technical aspects of things like page loads and file downloads. Such operations still take place, even though the average user doesn’t give them a second thought. One such overlooked set of operations is TCP/IP. This often used but little understood set of operations stands for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. TCP/IP is the combination of the two and describes the set of protocols that allows hosts to connect to the Internet. In actuality, TCP/IP is a combination of more than those two protocols, but the TCP and IP parts of TCP/IP are the main ones and the only ones to become part of the acronym that describes the operations involved. TCP/IP doesn’t just happen. It is an active process; a set of constant communications between private computers and Internet servers. When a computer attempts to log on to the Internet, that computer’s TCP/IP operations send a series of si
TCP/IP stands for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. It is the standard, basic protocol for all services on the internet. Invented by the Department of Defense, it was first actualized and put in use with the Berkeley UNIX operating system, which was designed under contract with DOD to interoperate using TCP/IP as a basic, native protocol for the BSD UNIX operating system. TCP/IP standards are maintained by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and described in documents known as RFC’s (requests for comments).
