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In this article we will be delving into the behaviour of the Linux implementation of TCP, and looking at the way in which TCP establishes a connection. There are socket options in Linux that cause the TCP handshake to behave in a rather curious way.
The introduction of a second IP protocol into the Internet presents many technical issues, and in previous columns we’ve explored many of the issues related to network engineering and infrastructure. In this column I’d like to head upward in the protocol stack to the rarefied air way up there at…
In the previous article on the growth trends of BGP we looked at the BGP routing table, and looked at some predictive models for the growth of the size of the Internet’s routing table. The conclusions made in that article were that while there is a very high level of…
The front page story of the September 13 2011 issue of the International Herald Tribune said it all: “Iranian activists feel the chill as hacker taps into e-mails.” The news story relates how a hacker has “sneaked into the computer systems of a security firm on the outskirts of Amsterdam”…
