One of the methods for ensuring a minimum level of data integrity in an IP environment is using payload aware processing. Payload aware processing involves IP ...

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

In Part 1 of this article, we talked about security issues related to sending and receiving IP packets and the function of IP Security, or IPSec. We also discussed different levels of security and ...

In the last issue we started following a packet's journey from the wire up to the higher levels of network stack processing. We left the packet at the end of layer 3 processing, where IP has ...

Take advantage of TCP/IP options to optimize data transmission Your email has been sent By Alex Kuznetsov, Alex Plant, and Alexander Tormasov Last time, we explained how the TCP_CORK option can ...