Timeline for Do segments at the transport layer contain IP information?
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| Dec 24, 2021 at 23:07 | vote | accept | Pablo | ||
| Oct 13, 2021 at 21:12 | history | edited | Effie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 13, 2021 at 21:07 | comment | added | Effie | i think it is more there to pass it to applications. so, in your example when you receive a UPD packet and want to send a responce, you will need to put something in the destination port of the responce. You can learn this something from source port of the original packet. Although UDP does not use connections, it still uses ports to identify and separate flows and to decide which socket to associate packet with. | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 20:47 | comment | added | Pablo | I understand that the UDP header must contain these values, but UDP won't actually use the source port for anything right? If I am understanding correctly, it's probably in the header to pass it along the networking layer? | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 20:41 | history | answered | Effie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |