What is TCP/IP?
What is TCP/IP?
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), in contrast to UDP, is stateful. The basic communication language or protocol of the Internet, but can also be used in private networks. TCP/IP is a two-layer program. The higher layer, Transmission Control Protocol, manages the assembling of a message or file into smaller packets that are transmitted over the Internet and received by a TCP layer that reassembles the packets into the original message. The lower layer, Internet Protocol, handles the address part of each packet so that it gets to the right destination. TCP/IP is considered a stateless protocol suite because each client connection is newly made without regard to whether a previous connection had been established.