'''T'''ransmission '''C'''ontrol '''P'''rotocol (documented in [RFC] 793 [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0793.txt]).  
The part of the [IP] protocol suite that provides a reliable stream transport 
between two [socket]s on two hosts/ports.

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[[See [packet], ...]]

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