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Last modified: Monday, April 12, 2004

Abbreviation of Transmission Control Protocol, and pronounced as separate letters. TCP is one of the main protocols in TCP/IP networks. Whereas the IP protocol deals only with packets, TCP enables two hosts to establish a connection and exchange streams of data. TCP guarantees delivery of data and also guarantees that packets will be delivered in the same order in which they were sent.

Extending TCP for transactions RFC
Request for Comments paper on extending TCP for transactions.

Performance interactions between P-HTTP and TCP - paper
Describes several performance problems resulting from interactions between implementations of persistent-HTTP (P-HTTP) and TCP.

Standard on Open Architecture for the Society for Automotive Engineers (SAE)
Provides information on the SAE's General Open Architecture Framework document.

TCP extensions for high perfomance RFC
Request for Comments paper on TCP extensions for high performance.

TCP windows user guide
Explains how to set up a TCP window size.

TIME-WAIT assassination hazards in TCP RFC
Request for Comments paper on TIME-WAIT assassination hazards in TCP.

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