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 ...

Last time, we discussed the fact that TCP has a flow control mechanism for each connection. The mechanism is based on a field in the segment header called the “Advertised Window”. The Advertised ...

In Part I we discussed how application flows can be distinguished using socket interfaces or port number information that is carried in the TCP header. Because it carries those parameters in its ...

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a virtual circuit protocol that is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. TCP and IP (Internet Protocol) are sometimes used synonymously ...