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- [IP], that alone is only able to unreliably send packets of data between hosts.+ [IP], that alone is only able to unreliably send packets of data between hosts.
+ [IP] packets can get lost, duplicated, transmitted out of order, so [TCP] users
+ retransmission algorithms, and sequence numbers, and the [TCP window], to provide reliability and the
+ abstraction of a continuous stream of data from an end to another.
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+ See also: [IP], [ICMP], [UDP].
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