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<p>to interconnect <a href="page.php?w=Host_%28network%29">hosts</a> or <a href="page.php?w=Node_%28networking%29">nodes</a> in the network, and a <b>link protocol</b> is a suite of methods and standards that operate only between adjacent network nodes of a <a href="page.php?w=network_segment">network segment</a>.</p>

<p>Despite the different semantics of layering between the <a href="page.php?w=Internet_protocol_suite">Internet protocol suite</a> and <a href="page.php?w=OSI_model">OSI model</a>, the link layer is sometimes described as a combination</p><p>
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