Top "Network-protocols" questions

A network protocol defines rules and conventions for communication between network devices.

Requesting A and AAAA records in single DNS query

I'm working on a DNS query implementation in C and interested in requesting both A and AAAA (IPv4 and IPv6) …

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Want to implement a VPN for just one application

I looking for add support to a VPN for my software, I known PPTP and OpenVPN , the two makes a …

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Tcp connections hang on CLOSE_WAIT status

Client close the socket first, when there is not much data from server, tcp connection shutdown is okay like: FIN …

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Which encoding is used by the HTTP protocol?

When a browser sends an HTTP request to a web server, what encoding is used to encode the HTTP protocol …

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What is Maximum Segment Lifetime (MSL) in TCP?

We have an home-brewed XMPP server and I was asked what is our server's MSL (Maximum Segment Lifetime). What does …

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TCP congestion control - Fast Recovery in graph

I've been reading the book "Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach" and encountered a question I don't seem to understand. …

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Why is it possible to use the same port on TCP and UDP at the same time?

I've seen while searching that it is possible to use two different programs on the same computer communicating over the …

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In protocol design, why would you ever use 2 ports?

When a TCP Server does a socket accept on a port, it gets a new socket to work with that …

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Logitech Unifying Receiver Protocol?

Is there a place where I can find documentation or an SDK about the Logitech Unifying Receiver? I recently obtained …

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