TCP/IP makes the internet work a bit like a postal system. There is an address book that contains the identity of every device on the network, and a set of standard envelopes for packaging up data ...

A recent newsletter stirred up a lot of opinions from industry watchers and network managers on the current state of TCP and what needs to be done to improve the protocol today. Research firm ...

TCP/IP was developed during the 1960s as part of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) effort to build a nationwide packet data network.

Thankfully, the TCP/IP protocol provides many ways to optimize data transfer. ... Last time, we explained how the TCP_CORK option can decrease the number of packets transferred over a network.

TCP wrappers are intended to provide wrapper daemons that can be installed without any changes to existing software. Most TCP/IP applications depend on the client/server model -- i.e., when a ...

TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol, ... And if chunks of data don't arrive in the order they were sent (a potential issue in some network situations), that's not a problem.

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