FIT 100
© Copyright University of
Washington 1999-2000
The Internet Protocol
vHow is the
information sent?
oInformation --
email, web pages, phone calls, everything sent over the internet -- is broken up into small units, called packets
oPackets
contain an IP address, a sequence number and some actual information, a part
of the whole message
oThis scheme is
called the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP
oThe
packets are sent independently, usually taking different routes, and
reassembled at the destination to reconstruct the original message
address # data
