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Reliability and Congestion Avoidance over UDP | Gaffer On Games
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How TCP backlog works in Linux
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| | This article gives an in-depth description how TCP backlog works in Linux and in particular what happens when the accept queue is full. Includes references to the relevant kernel sources.
| | eyakubovich.github.io
Folding SSL/TLS into TCP to gain efficiency
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| | In this post, I will divert from my usual topic of C++ to jog down my thoughts about TCP and SSL. I have limited knowledge of networking and even more limited understanding of security so my ramblings here might be full of flaws and security holes. Nevertheless, I thought it...
| | unorde.red
Internet 101: TCP
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| | [AI summary] This article provides a technical overview of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), explaining how it ensures reliable data transfer over an unreliable network using concepts like ports, sequence numbers, acknowledgments, and connection handshakes.
| | blog.oddbit.com
Setting up an IPv6 VLAN :: blog.oddbit.com
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| My internet service provider (FIOS) doesn't yet (sad face) offer IPv6 capable service, so I've set up an IPv6 tunnel using the Hurricane Electric tunnel broker. I want to provide IPv6 connectivity to multiple systems in my house, but not to all systems in my house 1. In order to meet those requirements, I'm going to set up the tunnel on the router, and then expose connectivity over an IPv6-only VLAN. In this post, we'll walk through the steps necessary to set that up.