When you launch Wireshark to investigate a network failure, a vast number of packets are displayed. If you find packets ...

Packet switching is the fundamental protocol that lets the Internet and Local Area Networks function in their decentralized, user-directed, constantly evolving ways. The idea is to group data to be ...

The Transmission Control Protocol and the User Datagram Protocol are both network communication protocols that work in conjunction with the Internet Protocol to enable network-attached devices to ...

Allegro Packets has released a software update for the Allegro Network Multimeter. With the firmware update 3.5, users can analyze TCP down to packet level with the new flowchart analysis. In addition ...

let's say you have the option to build a clinet/server application that will pass a lot of traffic on a LAN. Nothing routable. Let's assume the network is error-free and no packets are lost and no ...

Streamlining data transmission is a critical challenge for any enterprise. Thankfully, the TCP/IP protocol provides many ways to optimize data transfer. This article examines several options and shows ...

The mainstream press has been quick to proclaim a new vulnerability which threatens the entire Internet. CNN, for example, tells us: "Flaw could shut down Internet traffic". A bit of time spent ...

Editor's note: One of the steps that generally precedes a network-based attack is port scanning, in which a hacker tries to discover which services are being offered in order to launch a more specific ...

In the last two newsletters (see here and here) we commented on the fact that data replication was significantly different than other data applications and that it could be negatively impacted by ...

When you need to ensure server applications can connect properly, the general troubleshooting doesn’t help. It calls for advanced ways to troubleshoot TCP/IP connectivity, especially when you have a ...