Under TCP/IP inter-networking : Application - HTTP, FTP, Telnet, etc. Transport - TCP layer Network - IP layer (Internet) Data-link - Ethernet, or other hardware/software interfaces. Hardware * As a packet is sent from node to node across the Internet, progress is handled only at Network and Data-link layers except for source and destination nodes.Modified from Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IP_stack_connections.svg