Now that TCP/IP connectivity is becoming common for embedded systems, designers have to deal with the problems of setting up, monitoring, and troubleshooting remote devices. One approach is to make ...

Over the last several years, TCP/IP has gone from being the protocol that only geeks use, to a universal protocol that everyone uses, thanks to the widespread use of the Internet. TCP/IP has been ...

A software interface between the transport protocol (layers 3 and 4) and the data link protocol (layers 1 and 2) in the protocol stack. The interface provides a protocol manager that accepts requests ...

The TCP/IP access method for the OS/390 host uses routines in the SAS/C Transient Library for communications services. This library relies on an underlying layer of TCP/IP communications software such ...

It is sometimes useful to know the network commands to analyze or configure your TCP/IP networks. Here is the list of commands that can be used in the command prompt. This command is also useful to ...

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 ...

In a previous article, we explained how you can use the sendfile() syscall to reduce the overhead of data transfer from a disk to a network. Now, we’re going to cover another aspect of network ...

TCP/IP Manager can be downloaded for free and consumes less than 500KB of your hard disk space. It is an open-source tool that makes changing network settings a one-click operation. You all will agree ...

To better understand the world of computer networks, it is essential for us to understand some of the more complex terminology. Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) - The Internet protocol used to ...

Many a time IT admin needs to set up multiple IP addresses to the same network adapter. Situations such as hosting multiple SSL sites can speed up traffic exchanges, which can bypass the gateway in ...