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Foil 12 Networking

From Introduction to Architecture of World Wide Web Professional Web Certificate -- April - August 97. by Nancy J. McCracken
1 The Internet is a packet-switched network. Each message (or document) is broken up into a number of packets. Each packet has an address. A computer called a router sits on the local network and decides where to send it first on its way to its final address. Each computer along the network connection examines messages that come in and either keeps it or reroutes it along its way. The message is reassembled on the other end.
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