Hello! Today's blog post will be about coding a very rudimentary Client and Server application duo, which will communicate by using TCP Sockets. It is, as illustrated, in principle, just two cans 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 ...

To make the best use of the ss command, it’s important to understand what a socket is. A socket is a type of pseudo file (i.e., not an actual file) that represents a network connection. A socket ...

Quick Java I/O question:<BR><BR>Let's say I've got a TCP socket open to a server, and I'm writing bytes out to the OutputStream (retrieved via Socket.getOutputStream().<BR><BR>I then call OutputStream ...

TCP/IP network programming in C on Linux is good fun. All the advanced features of the stack are at your disposal, and you can do lot of interesting things in user space without getting into kernel ...

I have a VB6 app that needs to send 1.2MB of data through a tcp/ip socket. <BR><BR>If the client is on the same computer as the server app, the transfer is nearly instant. But if the client is on a ...

Want to know more about how your system is communicating? Try the Linux ss command. It replaces the older netstat and makes a lot of information about network connections available for you to easily ...

A socket is defined as the endpoint of a two-way communication between two processes running over a network. Inter-process communication can be achieved using sockets. After a connection between the ...

If you want a book on network programming, there are a few classic choices. [Comer’s] TCP/IP books are a great reference but sometimes is too low level. “Unix Networking Programming” by [Stevens] is ...