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    UDP Header

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    The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) provides a minimal transport layer that offers non-guaranteed packet delivery over IP networks. It gives applications direct access to datagram delivery without connection handling, retransmissions, or flow control. UDP only provides checksumming and port multiplexing, so applications must implement any other required network services like reliable delivery or congestion control. The UDP header contains fields for the source and destination ports and length, along with an optional checksum.

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    The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) provides a minimal transport layer that offers non-guaranteed packet delivery over IP networks. It gives applications direct access to datagram delivery without connection handling, retransmissions, or flow control. UDP only provides checksumming and port multiplexing, so applications must implement any other required network services like reliable delivery or congestion control. The UDP header contains fields for the source and destination ports and length, along with an optional checksum.

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    The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) provides a minimal transport layer that offers non-guaranteed packet delivery over IP networks. It gives applications direct access to datagram delivery without connection handling, retransmissions, or flow control. UDP only provides checksumming and port multiplexing, so applications must implement any other required network services like reliable delivery or congestion control. The UDP header contains fields for the source and destination ports and length, along with an optional checksum.

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    UDP Header

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    The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) provides a minimal transport layer that offers non-guaranteed packet delivery over IP networks. It gives applications direct access to datagram delivery without connection handling, retransmissions, or flow control. UDP only provides checksumming and port multiplexing, so applications must implement any other required network services like reliable delivery or congestion control. The UDP header contains fields for the source and destination ports and length, along with an optional checksum.

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    The User Datagram Protocol offers only a minimal transport service -- non-

    guaranteed datagram delivery -- and gives applications direct access to the datagram
    service of the IP layer. UDP is used by applications that do not require the level of
    service of TCP or that wish to use communications services (e.g., multicast or
    broadcast delivery) not available from TCP.

    UDP is almost a null protocol; the only services it provides over IP are checksumming
    of data and multiplexing by port number. Therefore, an application program running
    over UDP must deal directly with end-to-end communication problems that a
    connection-oriented protocol would have handled -- e.g., retransmission for reliable
    delivery, packetization and reassembly, flow control, congestion avoidance, etc.,
    when these are required. The fairly complex coupling between IP and TCP will be
    mirrored in the coupling between UDP and many applications using UDP.

    MAC header IP header UDP header Data :::

    UDP header:

    0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
    Source Port Destination Port
    Length Checksum
    Data :::

    Source Port. 16 bits.


    The port number of the sender. Cleared to zero if not used.

    Destination Port. 16 bits.


    The port this packet is addressed to.

    Length. 16 bits.
    The length in bytes of the UDP header and the encapsulated data. The minimum value
    for this field is 8.

    Checksum. 16 bits.
    Computed as the 16-bit one's complement of the one's complement sum of a pseudo
    header of information from the IP header, the UDP header, and the data, padded as
    needed with zero bytes at the end to make a multiple of two bytes. If the checksum is
    cleared to zero, then checksuming is disabled. If the computed checksum is zero, then
    this field must be set to 0xFFFF.
    When transported by IPv4, the pseudo header contains the following fields:

    0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
    Source IPv4 address
    Destination IPv4 address
    0 Protocol Total length

    The checksum is not optional when transported by IPv6. In this case, the pseudo
    header contains the following fields:

    0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
    Source IPv6 address :::
    Destination IPv6 address :::
    Upper layer packet length
    0 Next header

    Data. Variable length.

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