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The different protocols
There are various types of protocols that support a major and compassionate role in communicating with different devices across the network. These are:
- Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
- Internet Protocol (IP)
- User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
- Post office Protocol (POP)
- Simple mail transport Protocol (SMTP)
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
- Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
- Telnet
- Gopher
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Additional Protocols
Some other popular protocols act as co-functioning protocols associated with these primary protocols for core functioning. These are:
- ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)
- DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
- IMAP4 (Internet Message Access Protocol)
- SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)
- RTP (Real-Time Transport Protocol)
- RLP (Resource Location Protocol)
- RAP (Route Access Protocol)
- L2TP (Layer Two Tunnelling Protocol)
- PPTP (Point To Point Tunnelling Protocol)
- SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
- TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)