Question

What are the differences between TCP and UDP? What are transport protocols?

Answer 1

SOL:

Differences between TCP and UDP

TCP	UDP
TCP is a connection oriented protocol	UDP is a connection less protocol
TCP is reliable	UDP is not so reliable
TCP is not so faster compared to UDP because of the connection eastablishment phase before transfer	UDP is very much faster compared to TCP
TCP provides advanced error checking methods	UDP provides very basic error checking methods
Broadcasting is not supported by TCP	UDP supports broadcasting
if the packet is lost then that packet retransmission is there using TCP	Packet retransmission is not there in UDP
TCP is used in some of the protocols like HTTP,FTP etc	UDP is used in DNS,BOOTP etc

Transport protocols:

Transport protocols are used for communication between the Process in one host to process in another host . They guarantee end to end delivery of packets . These are above the IP Layer. some of the Transport protocols are

1) TCP 2)UDP