How Does TCP/IP Work In General?

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Abstract:
Within this report one would hope to give a better understanding of TCP/IP in both versions 4 and 6 and to understand the differences between them and the application in which they are used. As stated by http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/TCP-IP is the basic communication language of the internet. The same link stated also explains how TCP/IP works.

Introduction:
As previously stated TCP/IP is the basic communication language of the internet. But how does this work? Where did it start and what is the history behind it?
There are 4 versions of this protocol. The two that will be looked at and discussed here are the ones that are in use today which are versions 4 and 6.There will be links provided should one which to go into more detail and obtain more information on this topic such …show more content…

TCP/IP is a protocol and the most popular one in the world.
Both TCP and IP are both very important protocols and were two of the first.
TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol. At its early stage TCP stood for Transmission Control Program. This is the top layer protocol. It handles large data and converts them into packets. These packets are then sent to another TCP Protocol which then withdraws the useful information from the packets it receives.
So from this paragraph one can take one piece of data pardon the pun, that TCP handles DATA.
IP simply stands for Internet Protocol which is the bottom layer protocol. This allows the packet data to be sent and received by the right location. So one can assume IP handles the location, in other words IP Addressing
The both of these combined is what makes the internet work. They allow communication within the internet handling data and allowing data to get to its right location. This data travels from computer to computer as they communicate with on another.
This form of data is known as network packets which is the smallest amount of data that is transmitted within the

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