Many in the networking industry may not be aware that SCTP exists and the benefits that it provides end-to-end Internet communications. We use TCP over IP for most unicast communications and the ...

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 ...

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol is the protocol that computers on the Internet use to communicate with each other. This term was viewed 4,053 times.

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 ...

TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is a reliable transmission control protocol. One of primary elements of TCP is to transmit information in a secured way over a system. To this end, TCP utilizes a ...

Bob Briscoe (Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre) is on a mission to tackle one of the biggest problems facing the Internet. He wants the world to know that TCP (Transmission Control ...

In two previous articles [in the September and October 2007 issues of LJ], I looked at the basics of SCTP, how you can use SCTP as a replacement for TCP and how you can use SCTP to process multiple ...

Objective The objective of this task was to capture live network packets using Wireshark, identify at least three protocols present in the captured data, and summarize the findings. This activity ...