World of Computer Networking Your CCNA start - Analyzing User Datagram Protocol (UDP) in Wireshark

The video tutorial explains the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and its characteristics, highlighting its use in real-time applications where retransmission is unnecessary. It demonstrates how to capture and analyze UDP segments using Wireshark, focusing on DHCP and DNS protocols. The tutorial emphasizes the efficiency of UDP over TCP for certain applications due to its lack of connection establishment and teardown requirements.

What is the reason for using UDP instead of TCP for DNS requests?

Explain the difference in the number of segments required for TCP compared to UDP.

What are the advantages of using UDP for certain protocols?