Joshua Kellogg
Home Work Exercise #9
8/9/05

3. A network protocol is a set of rules that define and enable the exchange of data over a network.

6. TCP is a connection -oriented transport layer protocol responsible for sequencing, acknowledging, and ensuring the integrity of data packets. IP is the heart of TCP/IP, Ip is a connectionless packet-switched network layer protocol that performs addressing and route selection.

7. UDP is not connection-oriented and does not require an aknowledgement for data receipt. For this reason, UDP is less reliable than TCP.

10. Routers assist in routing information from source computers to the destination computer. An operating system can act as a router and maintain routing tables that store information regarding the next router to which data is to be transmitted to reach its destination.

11. In a distributed computing environment, user avail the following computing features, location transparency, migration transparency, performance transparency.

16. The network features of of UNIX and Linux are Network file sharing of (NFS), Samba, and Network Information Services or (NIS)

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