Tag: TCP

>> Why Does TCP/IP Use Big-Endian Encoding?

>> What Benefit Is Conferred by TCP Timestamp?

>> What is the Cost of Many TIME_WAITs on the Server Side?

>> TCP Socket No Connection Timeout

>> Why Does RTP Use UDP Instead of TCP?

>> What Does TCP DUP ACK Mean?

>> Transport Layer: Multiplexing and Demultiplexing

>> Difference Between MTU and MSS

>> Mobile Networking: Snooping TCP

>> Telnet vs. SSH

>> Selective Repeat Protocol

>> Browser Cookie Domains

>> Retransmission Rules for TCP

>> Application Server vs. Web Server

>> What Is a Network File System?

>> Big Endian vs. Little Endian

>> Routing vs. Forwarding vs. Switching

>> Stateful vs. Stateless in Programming

>> Port Scanning Explained

>> Socket vs. RPC

>> What Sets the RST Flag?

>> How to Bind to Any Available Port?

>> Can TCP and UDP Sockets Use the Same Port?

>> TCP Checksum Errors: Issues and Workarounds

• Error Detection

>> Maximum Packet Size for a TCP Connection

>> Active vs. Passive Connection in TCP

>> The Pseudo-Header in TCP

>> TCP: Differences Between FIN and RST

>> Flow Control vs. Congestion Control in TCP

>> Sockets: Close vs. Shutdown

>> Why Are TCP and UDP More Popular Than SCTP?

>> Propagation Delay vs Transmission Delay

>> SSL vs. SSH

>> SYN/ACK in the TCP Protocol

>> Definition of Network Units: Packet, Fragment, Frame, Datagram, and Segment