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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Packet queues are a core component of any network stack or device. They allow for asynchronous modules to communicate, increase performance and have the side effect of impacting latency. This article ...

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

The DNSSEC protocol will bring improved security to the internet but also larger packet sizes. Before you run into problems, you can check that your resolver is able to cope with these larger packets, ...