I had an assignment at university that dealt with the size of a message after being sent through two different types of networks with different packet sizes and network headers. That's all we were ...

If you look at the many fields in a typical IP packet, you might hesitate when you see there are several error check fields. In the Ethernet part of the packet we ...

The current IP address scheme of 32-bit words is fast becoming inadequate. It would appear that 2 32 = 4 294 967 296 combinations of addresses should be enough for everybody, but in practice this is ...

Have you ever performed surgery on data packets? There are times when that may be the best way to troubleshoot and optimize your network. This edition of the Packet Professor will get you started in ...