The data transfer in a TCP/IP network is usually block-based. From a programmer’s point of view, sending data means issuing a series of “send data block” requests. On a system level, sending an ...

Ethernet is a layer 2 data link protocol that is widely used with the TCP/IP protocol, which resides at layers 3 and 4. To understand network communications, it is essential to learn about the ...

Recently, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) completed its work on an iSCSI specification that leaves the industry with a standard for building storage networks based on Ethernet/TCP/IP ...

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 ...

The purpose of the network layer is to help route messages between different local networks. Central to this layer is the concept of exclusive network addresses, where every terminal connected to the ...

Today, connectivity to the Internet is easy; you simply get an Ethernet driver and hook up the TCP/IP protocol stack. Then dissimilar network types in remote locations can communicate with each other.

The BC9120, BC9020 and BC9050 are the latest variants in the vendor’s BC9000 and BX9000 Ethernet TCP/IP controller family. The BC controllers include a direct connection to I/O terminals and can be ...

Soon after data centers began transitioning from hard drives to solid-state drives (SSD), the NVMe protocol arrived to support high-performance, direct-attached PCIe SSDs. NVMe was followed by NVMe ...

At the HPC Linux for Wall Street conference today in NYC, Chelsio demonstrated a user mode UDP latency of 1.6usec and user mode TCP latency of 2.0usec using its WireDirect software suite, both numbers ...