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Summary

A transaction with UDP takes 2 segments, the request and the reply. With TCP a transaction takes 9 segments. As will be seen in chapter 4 T/TCP can complete a transaction in just 3 segments. A reduction in the case of TCP, but an increase for UDP. The advantage that T/TCP holds over UDP is the reliability.

The main changes with T/TCP over TCP are in the way that it establishes communication with the other host, and how the connection is terminated. These are discussed in chapter 4.



Mark Stacey
Thu Apr 30 12:26:11 IST 1998