datagram

You are getting caught up in the details … packet and datagram are not exactly well defined terms. I also think that you are also looking at things backwards. In a conventional network: the link layer (e.g., 802.3 “Ethernet” or 802.11 “Wi-Fi”) presents frames to the network layer (e.g., IP, ICMP) The network layer assembles the frames into packets which are passed on to the next layer … Read more