To define Throughput, Goodput and Latency, we need to understand some terms first such as the propagation delay, the packetization delay, the queueing delay, etc.…
Thoughts of a Network Engineer
To define Throughput, Goodput and Latency, we need to understand some terms first such as the propagation delay, the packetization delay, the queueing delay, etc.…
The transmission media is not 100% reliable. It introduces modification of the signal such as distortion, attenuation noise and interference. This introduces errors in transmitted…
The network was designed with two principles in mind: the End-to-End principle and the Strong End-to-End. End-to-end principle The End-to-End principle states that end-to-end applications…
ICMP is a Transport layer protocol. When encapsulated into IP, the protocol field of the IP header = 1 to mean “ICMP”. ICMP Header…
I have gathered my study notes on the TCP protocol in one big blog post. I hope you are going to enjoy it! TCP Protocol…
Each IP address is composed of two portions: the network prefix: defines the administrative domain (e.g. MIT, Princeton) the host portion Before CIDR: ip addresses…