Do you remember when we used multi-protocol routing for IPX, AppleTalk, and TCP/IP running on the same network? In the 1980s and early 1990s many enterprises had multiple protocols running on the ...

When I use the netstat command to look at the open TCP/IP connections on my PC, there are connections that should be closed that are in the TIME_WAIT state. What is this, and why do connections stay ...

Okay, my friend and I are about 30 feet apart in the dorm, we're trying to connect via TCP/IP to transfer files. The only program we have is HyperTerminal to do this.<P>Problem is, I set my HT to ...

Part I of this article discussed tcpdump, a command-line utility that sniffs network traffic. Now let's see what it can do. Scenario 1: Established Telnet Connection Using tcpdump we can analyze the ...