A network layer facilitates the connection between two remote computers. As far as the transport layer is concerned, it acts as if there were no modems, repeaters, bridges, or routers along the way. The transport layer relies completely on the services of lower layers. It also expects that the connection between two computers has been established, and it can therefore fully dedicate its efforts to the cooperation between two distant computers. Generally, the transport layer is responsible for communication between two applications running on different computers.
There can be several transport connections between two computers at any given time (for example, one for a virtual terminal and another for email). On the network layer, the transport packets are directed based on the address of the computer (or its network interface). On the transport layer, individual applications are addressed. Applications use unique addresses within one computer, so the transport address is usually composed of both the network and transport addresses.
In this case, the basic transmission unit is the segment that is composed of a header and payload.
The transport packet is transmitted within the payload of the network packet.
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
7 Layer OSI : Transport Layer
Author: Rahim Rasyid
| Posted at: 10:26 |
Filed Under:
Computer network,
Internet,
Internet Protocol,
network,
networking,
Protocols,
Transmission Control Protocol
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