eolas/zk/Transport_Layer_of_Internet_Protocol.md
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Transport_Layer_of_Internet_Protocol
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Transport Layer of Internet Protocol

Transport Layer protocols provide a communications channel for data to be sent between hosts. The Transport Layer is dependent upon the Internet Layer for addressing and routing the data and the Link_Layer_of_Internet_Protocol for transferring the data to a specific host once it has reached the local network.

The protocol governing the Transport Layer is the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

A TCP fragment fits within an IP packet's data section, giving us the following iteration of the network stack: