Internet Protocol (IP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) are the languages computers use to communicate with one another, and they out the rules of the internet. TCP/IP makes the internet work a ...

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 ...

As mentioned in the review, TCP/IP header compression comes standard on most of today’s network equipment. It is defined in RFC 1144 and compresses 40 bytes of header down to an average of 5 bytes. It ...

Bletchley Park firm 4Links has created a hardware TCP/IP stack that runs in an FPGA. What is TCP/IP? Transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) was devised as a standard for linking ...

I'm reading Comer's TCP/IP book, where (page 107 of the 4th edition, if you're interested) he states: <BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip_ubbcode_quote"><font size="-1">quote ...

In this tutorial we will discuss the concept of Ports and how they work with IP addresses. If you have not read our article on IP addresses and need a brush up, you can find the article here. If you ...

In addition to IPv4 (often written as just IP), there is IP version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 was developed as IPng (“IP:The Next Generation” because the developers were supposedly fans of the TV show “Star Trek ...

Network data compression is becoming so commonplace that router vendors have begun including limited compression features – such as TCP/IP header compression – in most models. However, for maximum ...