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| | The transmission control protocol (TCP) does one job very well - it creates an abstraction that makes an unreliable channel look like a reliable network. For applications built over an unreliable network like the Internet, TCP is a godsend that hides a lot of the inherent complexity in building networked applications. A laundry list of TCP features that application developers rely on every day includes: retransmission of lost data, in-order data delivery, data integrity, and congestion control. This arti...
| | www.kylehailey.com
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| | What happens with I/O requests over NFS and more specifically with Oracle? How does NFS affect performance and what things can be done to improve performance?What happens at the TCP layer when I request with dd an 8K chunk of data off an NFS mounted file system?Here is one example:I do add if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=8k count=1where my output file is on an NFS mount, I see the TCP send and receives from NFS server to client as:(the code is in dtrace and runs on the server side, seetcp.dfor the code
| | www.saminiir.com
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| | At this point we have a TCP/IP stack that is able to communicate to other hosts in the Internet. The implementation so far has been fairly straight-forward, ...
| | blog.dornea.nu
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| [AI summary] The blog post discusses the process of creating and executing a shellcode in C to read a file named 'flag.txt' and dump its content, including assembly code, compilation steps, and execution considerations.