TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

2009 Mar 07

Members of the
TCP/IP Family		 Ports
ICMP
Header		 IP
Header		 UDP
Header		 TCP
Header

The TCP/IP protocoals are extremely flexible; almost any underlying technology can be used to transfer TCP/IP traffic.

Transport
Layer
Members of the TCP/IP Family
Transmission
Control Protocol (TCP)		 User Datagram
Protocol (UDP)
Network
Layer
Internet
Protocol (IP)		 Internet Control
Message Protocol (ICMP)
See: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
See Requests For Comments (RFC) 791..793 plus others.

Security has been added in to TCP/IP using the IPsec Protocol.

2005-2009