Background first (you can skip to the last sentence if you don't care): I'm trying to write a game where short text commands are sent between the client and server frequently. It's entirely possible ...

It’s a common benchmarking practice to take multiple measurements of throughput or latency, each using a different packet size. There’s no one right answer as to which packet size represents the ‘best ...

Several folks have written to comment on the 250% increase in overhead I attributed to IPv6 in my previous column on the topic. They’re right. The number is overstated, for a rather embarrassing ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In past lessons, we discussed some important numbers used in IP networks. One was 1460, the ...

Modern switches and routers often use dynamic RAM (DRAM) in order to provide large buffer storage space. However, the effective bandwidth of DRAM is frequently a limiting factor in the design of ...

(click thumbnail)Fig. 1: Red characters represent corrupted packets.Error detection and correction technologies are crucial. They are present on every CD, DVD and ...

In Digital Networks, MTU(Maximum Transfer Unit) is the parameter that decides the largest datagram transferred without being fragmented through the network. Below is an introduction to MTU as well as ...