What does the transport protocol do?

• It defines how data should be presented to the next receiving layer, packages the data accordingly, and then passes the data to the application through the session layer interface.
• It provides low-level access to the network adapters by providing data transmission support and some basic adapter management functions
• It supports communications between applications on different computers by creating sessions, defining data-exchange formats, and providing application-support services
• It is responsible for establishing logical names on the network, establishing connections between two logical names on the network, and supporting reliable data transfer between computers that have established a session
• None of the above