Learn how to compare and contrast TCP/IP state transition diagram with UDP and SCTP protocols, and their benefits and drawbacks for different applications.

It’s important to understand that the TCP Reference Model doesn’t really concern itself with the OSI Model. With TCP traffic, the connections are established at the transport layer.

It is observed that covert channels can be easily implemented in TCP/IP stack. It is easily achieved by embedding the covert message in the various header fields seemingly filled with "Random" data ...