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Network protocols are formal standards and policies consisting of rules, procedures, and formats that define how data is exchanged over networks. They ensure that devices can communicate effectively, ...

The code that defines a protocol for execution. On a command line, the first characters are the protocol prefix. For example, to activate the File Transfer Protocol, the command line would look ...