Basic Packet Sending

• The information coming from one computer is broken up into packets. Small portions of the whole data.
• Each Packet marked with:
  • Source and destination addresses
  • Packet length
  • Time to live
• The packets of information travel along the links and are guided to their eventual destination by routers which looks at the destination address and decides the best route to send them.
• Packets collected at the other and reassembled.