One of the most important problems with supporting rapid Internet growth is the growing need to streamline data transfer from the server to the client. Ask any number of people to define the criteria ...

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In the last issue we started following a packet's journey from the wire up to the higher levels of network stack processing. We left the packet at the end of layer 3 processing, where IP has ...

Most people who have written networking software are familiar with the TCP and UDP protocols. These are used to connect distributed applications and allow messages to flow between them. These ...