Protocol

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

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User Datagram Protocol — connectionless transport with ports and an optional checksum. It is the basis for DNS, RTP, QUIC, DHCP, and RoCEv2 encapsulation. Applications must handle loss, reordering, and duplication themselves.

Layers

Tags

datagramportschecksuml4

Sources

  • RFC 768

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