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What does the transport layer use as an addressing method to identify an application running on a host?

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It uses Port Number.

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Transport layer is an (OSI) that is open system interconnection model which is responsible for end to end communication over a network .

To identify an application running on host the transport layer uses Port Number. A port number is a way of identifying a specific process to which an internet or message are sent when they reach to the server.

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