TCP and IP encapsulation

From: R. Clayton <rclayton_at_monmouth.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 22:21:35 -0400
From the lecture, my understanding was that TCP segments encapsulate IP
datagrams; however from the reading, it seems like the opposite.

  Your reading is correct: 

    A TCP pdu encapsulates an HTTP pdu (for example) by prepending a TCP header
    An IP pdu encapsulates the TCP pdu by prepending an IP header

  The picture from the lecture you want is

    http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/~rclayton/web-pages/f14-cn/traiutf11.png
Received on Thu Sep 25 2014 - 22:21:47 EDT

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