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 | | In general, a packet includes three principal elements: control information (such as destination, origin, length of packet), data to be transmitted, and error detection and correction bits. |
 | | The determination of whether to forward or drop a packet according to a prescribed set of criteria, such as source or destination or packet length. |
 | | Packet data networking technology, level 3 of X.25, defines how user messages are broken into packets, how calls are established and cleared, and how data flows across the entire PDN. |
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