From the course: Learning the Packet Delivery Process

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Step 2: The packet acquires delivery information (remote)

Step 2: The packet acquires delivery information (remote)

From the course: Learning the Packet Delivery Process

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Step 2: The packet acquires delivery information (remote)

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- [Instructor] We left off in the last movie with the application layer passing the data and information it had to the transport layer. The transport layer continues the delivery process by looking at the data from the application layer and dividing it into chunks. Each of these chunks is a collection of bytes. It then creates datagrams, or segments, out of these by adding the appropriate header to each of them. At the same time, this layer also verifies what kind of data it is and what protocol is necessary to send it. The two most common protocols here are UDP and TCP. Let's look at both. If you recall, UDP is a connectionless protocol. TCP is a connection-oriented protocol. UDP doesn't guarantee delivery of all packets, but TCP does. If the data is a UDP datagram, a UDP header is added and contains information about the source and destination ports. It also contains information about the field link and includes a…

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