TCP/IP is a layered networking protocol, which means that packets of data from the application are passed through several stages, or layers, until they move onto the wire as pulses or into the air as ...

Q: I was reading your book Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume 1 and I have a question about the UDP/TCP pseudo-header used in the checksum. I've checked the RFC's, scoured the Internet for answers, ...

Abstract: There are hardly any experimental results seen in support of the discussions on the impact of TCP-IP Van Jacobson header compression (VJHC) in harsh environments. This paper studies the ...

This is a C console project developed using Code::Blocks, designed to help practice using C bitfields. The project mimics a simplified version of a TCP header structure, focusing on the representation ...

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 ...

Ethernet is a layer 2 data link protocol that is widely used with the TCP/IP protocol, which resides at layers 3 and 4. To understand network communications, it is essential to learn about the ...