Top "Network-protocols" questions

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

Why is NOTIFY necessary in SSDP?

I'm hoping somebody can clear up my confusion behind the purposes of NOTIFY and M-SEARCH messages used by upnp/ssdp …

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How does ping resolve ip addresses?

The ping utility works above the network layer and DNS works in the application layer. If we try ping www.…

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Flow based routing and openflow

This may not be the typical stackoverflow question. A colleague of mine has been speculating that flow-based routing is going …

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