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OSI model by layer
7. Application layer NNTP SIP SSI DNS FTP Gopher HTTP (HTTP/3) NFS NTP SMPP SSH SMTP SNMP Telnet DHCP NETCONF more....
6. Presentation layer MIME XDR ASN.1 ASCII TLS PGP
5. Session layer Named pipe NetBIOS SAP PPTP RTP SOCKS X.225^[1]
4. Transport layer TCP UDP SCTP DCCP QUIC SPX
3. Network layer IP IPv4 IPv6 ICMP (ICMPv6) IPsec IGMP IPX IS-IS AppleTalk X.25 PLP
2. Data link layer ATM ARP SDLC HDLC CSLIP SLIP GFP PLIP IEEE 802.2 LLC MAC L2TP IEEE 802.3 Frame Relay ITU-T G.hn DLL PPP X.25 LAPB Q.922 LAPF IEEE 802.11
1. Physical layer RS-232 RS-449 ITU-T V-Series I.430 I.431 PDH SONET/SDH PON OTN DSL IEEE 802.3 IEEE 802.11 IEEE 802.15 IEEE 802.16 IEEE 1394 ITU-T G.hn PHY USB Bluetooth
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External Data Representation (XDR) is a standard data serialization format, for uses such as computer network protocols. It allows data to be transferred between different kinds of computer systems. Converting from the local representation to XDR is called encoding. Converting from XDR to the local representation is called decoding. XDR is implemented as a software library of functions which is portable between different operating systems and is also independent of the transport layer.

XDR uses a base unit of 4 bytes, serialized in big-endian order; smaller data types still occupy four bytes each after encoding. Variable-length types such as string and opaque are padded to a total divisible by four bytes. Floating-point numbers are represented in IEEE 754 format.

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