What properties, advantages and special features does the TCP protocol offer?
Description: If data is transferred with the TCP protocol, the transfer takes the form of a data stream. There is no information transferred either about the length or about the start and end of a message. The recipient cannot tell where one message ends in the data stream and the next one begins. Therefore, the sender has to specify a message structure which can be interpreted by the recipient. The message structure can, for example, comprise the data followed by a control character, such as “carriage return”, signaling the end of a message. In most cases TCP uses the IP (Internet protocol) which is why people also frequently (and often not altogether correctly) talk about the “TCP/IP protocol”. It is in layer 4 of the ISO-OSI reference model. ( 46 KB ) Fig. 01 – Position in the ISO-OSI reference model Socket and ports: Several processes can run simultaneously on multitasking operating systems, whereby each process can provide multiple services. They should be able to be addressed sep
