How TCP/IP Protocol Works?

The TCP/IP is one of the highly used network protocols, these days. However, do you have any idea about what network protocol really is? Well, protocol is like a language being used to make two computers talk to each other. Just like in the real world, if ever they don’t talk the same language, they are not able to communicate.

On the other hand, the TCP/IP is not actually a protocol, yet it is a set of protocol. It is actually known as the Protocol stack, as what it has been commonly known. For instance, it already refers to two variable protocols, the TCP an the IP. Moreover, on the internet layer, you have the Internet Protocol or the IP that gets the packets being received from the Transport Layer and add up virtual address information, just like adding the computer address that is sending the data and the address of the computer that will then receive the data. All of these virtual addresses are known as the IP Addresses. After then, the packet will be sent into the lower layer, called as the Network Interface. With this layer, the packets will be known as the datagrams. The packets that are also transmitted over the network are then known as the frames.