I had an assignment at university that dealt with the size of a message after being sent through two different types of networks with different packet sizes and network headers. That's all we were ...

Miss Parts I and II? No need to search or stress–they're right here:Part I Part II. IPv6 Packet Format br>The structure of the IP packet header was modified in IPv6. These changes reflect some of the ...

A typical User Datagram Protocol/Internet Protocol (UDP/IP) header contains 20 bytes of IP header and eight bytes of UDP header. While UDP headers contain source and destination UDP port addresses, ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Effnet Inc. says its EffnetEdge Header Compression Suite is the first commercial implementation of the Robust Header Compression Protocol, or RFC 3095, defined by the Internet ...

Computer engineers learn early on that a core set of protocols are critical to networks. Some of the most important protocols include Internet Protocol (IP), Transaction Control Protocol (TCP), ...

In the last issue we started following a packet's journey from the wire up to the higher levels of network stack processing. We left the packet at the end of layer 3 processing, where IP has ...

Network Address Translation (NAT) is a technology that has, in a small way, revolutionized Internet communications. NAT allows multiple computers on a LAN to share a single public IP address for ...

Led by Internet legend Lawrence Roberts, well-funded start-up Caspian Networks says it will deliver a switch capable of handling projected 100 terabit/sec IP traffic loads at the ‘Net’s core. While ...

Need a simple-to-use yet highly flexible intrusion detection package? If so, look no further than Snort. This Linux utility might be just what you need for network traffic monitoring, and Jim McIntyre ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There is a core set of protocols critical to the operation of computer networks. Some of the most ...