At the layer 4 of the OSI model, there are mainly 2 protocols - TCP and UDP. TCP is used when reliability is required. For example, when transferring an executable with FTP, a single bit that is transferred wrong will likely make the executable unusable. Most common network protocols therefore use FTP.
UDP is used when fast transmission is more important than reliability. UDP is often used to transmit voice or video.
UDP
Yes it is!!
You don't need to configure UDP; this is done automatically by the application protocols that use this transport method.
Transport layer TCP/IP Protocols are TCP and UDP
1. IP works at network layer, UDP works at transport layer. 2. UDP carries application data, IP carries TCP segments or UDP datagrams.
tftp snmp nfs
UDP and TCP both are transport layer protocols. UDP is connection less and TCP is connection oriented. UDP is preferred over TCP when large amount data is to be sent like on skype or video conferencing .
dns
TCP and UDP are two different layer 4 protocols. TCP reliably sends data with acknowledgments and UDP sends data without checking if the destination received it. Skype uses UDP while email uses TCP.
TCP and UDP
The two that are most commonly used are called TCP and UDP.
Netstat reports on the common tcp/ip protocols, including (but not limited to) TCP, UDP, ICMP, socket connections.