Often we discuss errored packets that are dropped without understanding the underlying techniques that determine why the packets are discarded. There are checks for errors at several protocol layers.

If you look at the many fields in a typical IP packet, you might hesitate when you see there are several error check fields. In the Ethernet part of the packet we ...

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 ...

Problems in TCP framing over Ethernet networks must be addressed in next-generation TCP Offload Engines (TOEs) to allow a server and its I/O subsystem to scale to 10 Gbit/second data rates for storage ...

Transmission Control is an essential aspect of network activity and governs the behavior of many services we take for granted. When sending your emails or just browsing the web you are relying on TCP ...