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title: "What is the use of TCP in the IP packets?"  
description: "What is the use of TCP in the IP packets?"  
author: "Sandra Emily"  
published: 2022-05-04  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/97101/what-is-the-use-of-tcp-in-the-ip-packets  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "networking", "network-security"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is the use of TCP in the IP packets?

What is the use of [TCP](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1309/which-tcp-ip-port-does-sql-server-run-on-how-can-it-be-changed) in the IP packets?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- A packet is the basic unit of information in [**network**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96979/what-is-a-network) transmission in its most basic form. **TCP/IP** is the network protocol, or set of rules, that most networks use to communicate between devices. TCP/IP requires that data be separated into packets that contain both a segment of data to be conveyed and the address to which the data is to be sent.
- TCP/IP is a packet-switching system since it was designed to use packets. The main benefit is that data can be routed to a destination through any number of transmission points, making the network decentralised and less prone to equipment failure.

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