Datagram




A self-contained, independent entity of data carrying sufficient information to be routed from the source to the destination computer without reliance on earlier exchanges between this source and destination computer and the transporting network.

See also connectionless, frame, packet.





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data frame
Data General
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data glove
 Chernobyl packet
Columbia AppleTalk Package
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Data Link Provider Interface
frame
 data hierarchy
Data Interchange Standards Association
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Datakit
Data Link Connection Identifier