Day: 3 March 2009

Three options for connecting over a telephone service: Dial-up connections. Integrated Services Digital Network(ISDN) - A method of sending voice and data information on a digital phone line. Basic ISDN...

This section may be skipped by those more interested on the software aspects of networking or those learning networking, but all readers should at some time be aware of the...

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) defined by RFC 792 and RFC 1122 is used for network error reporting and generating messages that require attention. The errors reported by ICMP are...

User Datagram Protocol (UDP) supports the network at the transport layer. User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is an unreliable connection-less protocol and is defined by RFC 768 and 1122. It is...

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) supports the network at the transport layer. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) provides a reliable connection oriented service. Connection oriented means both the client and server must...

Internet Protocol (IP) provides support at the network layer of the OSI model. All transport protocol data packets such as UDP or TCP are encapsulated in IP data packets to...

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) provides a completely different function to the network than Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP). ARP is used to resolve the ethernet address of a NIC from...

Network Repeater A repeater connects two segments of your network cable. It retimes and regenerates the signals to proper amplitudes and sends them to the other segments. When talking about,...

TDP/IP includes a wide range of protocols which are used for a variety of purposes on the network. The set of protocols that are a part of TCP/IP is called...

When we talk about Local Area Network (LAN) technology the IEEE 802 standard may be heard. This standard defines networking connections for the interface card and the physical connections, describing...