The three highest order bits in the Type of Service field are set aside for Priority. The priority function is provided to allow TCP to mark certain packets as higher priority. Packets with higher priority will get forwarded first. In addition, a provision is made to allow for compression and encryption of the TCP headers. All of these functions are signalled by a set of flags in the TCP header.
TCP Tutorials
- Introduction to Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
- TCP: A Reliable Protocol
- TCP Header
- TCP 3-Way Handshake
- TCP Connections
- TCP Sockets
- TCP Data Transfer/a>
- TCP Segmentation and Reassembly
- TCP Flow Control
- TCP Multiplexing
- TCP Precedence
- TCP Transport Stream Push (TCP Push)
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