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MSS, the TCP maximum segment size, is the largest data payload a TCP host will accept in one segment, typically 1460 bytes on standard Ethernet with…
MTU is the largest packet a network link carries in one frame, and it sets how transport protocols size segments and avoid fragmentation.
A port number is a 16-bit identifier in TCP and UDP headers that directs transport-layer traffic to the correct application on a host.
A socket is the operating system endpoint that binds an application to a transport protocol, an IP address and a port number for network communication.
TCP, the Transmission Control Protocol, is the transport protocol that gives applications a reliable, ordered byte stream across unreliable IP networks.
The TCP handshake is the three-step SYN, SYN-ACK and ACK exchange that opens a reliable TCP connection and agrees on sequence numbers and options.
UDP, the User Datagram Protocol, is a connectionless transport protocol that sends independent datagrams with minimal overhead and no delivery guarantee.