Re: UDP protocol

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From: Greg Cline
Date: Sat, 24 May 1986 02:09

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In article <1807@gitpyr.UUCP> allen@gitpyr.UUCP writes:
>Can someone explain to me what the differences are between UDP and
>TCP ?  I understand that both are OSI level 4 protocols and both
>run over the IP protocol.

Briefly:
  
	The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) enables application programs
	to send messages to other programs.
  
	The Transmission Control Program (TCP) supports the basic
	data transfer, connection, data reliability, flow control,
	multiplexing, precedence and security functions.

Greg Cline, Dartmouth Graduate CIS 
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From: cline@dartvax.UUCP (Greg Cline)
Newsgroups: net.lan,net.dcom
Subject: Re: UDP protocol
Message-ID: <4602@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-May-86 22:09:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: dartvax.4602
Posted: Fri May 23 22:09:42 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 25-May-86 18:24:09 EDT
References: <1807@gitpyr.UUCP>
Reply-To: cline@dartvax.UUCP (Greg Cline)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Keywords: UDP, TCP, IP

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