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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The data centre has continued to evolve and so have the requirements placed on the network. Not long ago, it was enough for the networking group to provide load balancing based on the TCP/IP address ...

When designing FPGA-based Ethernet connected embedded systems the priority and necessity of requirements such as cost, area, flexibility etc. varies for each system. Simplified for most systems, it ...