TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol) constitute the vast majority of packets the average Internet user sends and receives. Inevitably, errors will at some point work ...

I'm reading Comer's TCP/IP book, where (page 107 of the 4th edition, if you're interested) he states: <BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip_ubbcode_quote"><font size="-1">quote ...

The purpose of the network layer is to help route messages between different local networks. Central to this layer is the concept of exclusive network addresses, where every terminal connected to the ...

As mentioned in the review, TCP/IP header compression comes standard on most of today’s network equipment. It is defined in RFC 1144 and compresses 40 bytes of header down to an average of 5 bytes. It ...

Take advantage of TCP/IP options to optimize data transmission Your email has been sent By Alex Kuznetsov, Alex Plant, and Alexander Tormasov Last time, we explained how the TCP_CORK option can ...

Do you remember when we used multi-protocol routing for IPX, AppleTalk, and TCP/IP running on the same network? In the 1980s and early 1990s many enterprises had multiple protocols running on the ...

If you look at the many fields in a typical IP packet, you might hesitate when you see there are several error check fields. In the Ethernet part of the packet we ...