Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

TCP provides several features, which are explained in Chapter 9, "Choosing Shipping Options When Transporting Goods over the (Network) Roadway." But thinking about a few details now can help you with the overall concept of TCP/IP. The most memorable feature of TCP is error recovery, which works like the example back in Figure 3-3. Figure 3-3 showed some imaginary protocol used for error recovery. Figure 3-6 shows the same figure, but with details added for TCP.