In the last newsletter, we began a discussion of TCP/IP and its 25th anniversary. One of the major shifts that IP brought about, of course, was the move from connection-oriented to connectionless ...

As a connectionless protocol, the delivery of data is not guaranteed at the IP layer; hence, the addition of TCP to ensure that all of the packets are delivered – and that they are delivered in the ...

Last week we discussed ports in some detail. This week, even more detail. To understand how ports work and the ways they behave, we need to understand how TCP/IP functions. Ports are numbered from one ...