Internet Protocol

Paul Hudson is trying to explain why the modification of network protocols can make BitTorrent smarter" - or the rest of the Internet is slower. Wow! Pleased to learn tricks that speed up the loading of my distribution! Load distributions. That's right, this is what will help me explain the changes. Let's start. Once upon a dinosaur ... Uh, not whether the scroll forward? ... And then came the Internet! And Vint Cerf threw look at him and said: this is good. AND There were two main ways to send data - TCP and UDP.

Somehow we do not go rulim. I'm sending your data electric mail, without there UDP. A TCP - this is not an antibiotic? Apparently, we're talking about different things. Poraskinte brain: post message - it's just text only. How do you think he came to the recipients? Well, what about this, I once again up to date: SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and a couple of other abbreviations. It was they conjure with sending and receiving mail. Well, of course, but they just add a few lines of meta-information about your letters. And what messages are finding their way online? ...

TCP? Already warmer. TCP and UDP? Hot! Simply put, your message is wrapped in SMTP (so-called "application layer" because it contains information for postal applications), then the TCP or UDP (the so-called "transport layer", because transfers from point A to point B). Technically speaking, all these data are then wrapped in another one layer, Internet Protocol, or simply IP, called "internet-level", he is responsible for actual delivery of messages to a global communication channels.