The data transfer in a TCP/IP network is usually block-based. From a programmer’s point of view, sending data means issuing a series of “send data block” requests. On a system level, sending an ...

A top-down exploration of networking using the 5-layer model and the TCP/IP stack. HTTP, FTP, DNS, BSD Sockets, concurrent servers, checksums, reliable transport with stop-and-wait, go-back-n, ...

Networking is a fundamental aspect of modern computing, underpinning everything from small home offices to large enterprise data centers. For Linux system administrators and network engineers, a ...

This application note presents the TCP/IP protocol stack-based network solution for industrial applications. The document describes the method of acquiring a development environment, the environment ...

Thomas Herbert's book The Linux TCP/IP Stack: Networking for Embedded Systems is a thorough guided tour of the Linux kernel TCP/IP implementation. Herbert builds his description of Linux networking, ...

At the inception of TCP/IP, X.25 networks were already widely used, especially outside the United States. The major change, and one that would continue to be an issue for the next several years, is ...

FRAMINGHAM, MASS. — When a user requests a Web page, his browser sends numerous separate requests for different types of information — such as Java applet, multimedia, database access — resulting in ...

While on the road, you and a co-worker often need to exchange files. You typically send them as e-mail attachments, but surely there's a better way? E-mail is about the worst possible way to exchange ...

In a previous article, we explained how you can use the sendfile() syscall to reduce the overhead of data transfer from a disk to a network. Now, we’re going to cover another aspect of network ...