Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The Session Layer ( Layer 5 )

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Layer 5 is the "manager" of the two-way communication between two remote hosts. This is the layer that handles the creation, maintenance, and teardown of communications between those two hosts. The overall communication itself is referred to as a session.

Some sessions last just long enough to send a unidirectional message, where other sessions will be of longer duration.

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