It will be split when it hits a network device with a lower MTU than the packet’s size. Most ethernet devices are 1500, but it can often be smaller, like 1492 if that ethernet is going over PPPoE (DSL) because of the extra routing information, even lower if a second layer is added like Windows … Read more
The key decision is whether or not to make the WCF service conform to the socket client or whether to make the socket client conform to the WCF service. It will be simplest to attempt to conform to the WCF service, rather than trying to implement something custom within WCF, which is never easy. At … Read more
Looks like this was added in Kernel 2.6.37. Commit diff from kernel Git and Excerpt from change log below; commit dca43c75e7e545694a9dd6288553f55c53e2a3a3 Author: Jerry Chu Date: Fri Aug 27 19:13:28 2010 +0000 tcp: Add TCP_USER_TIMEOUT socket option. This patch provides a “user timeout” support as described in RFC793. The socket option is also needed for the … Read more
java.io.IOException: Connection reset by peer The other side has abruptly aborted the connection in midst of a transaction. That can have many causes which are not controllable from the server side on. E.g. the enduser decided to shutdown the client or change the server abruptly while still interacting with your server, or the client program … Read more
First of all not both of them disables Nagle’s algorithm. Nagle’s algorithm is for reducing more number of small network packets in wire. The algorithm is: if data is smaller than a limit (usually MSS), wait until receiving ACK for previously sent packets and in the mean time accumulate data from user. Then send the … Read more
Ports 0-1023 are the Well Known Ports and are assigned by IANA. These should only be used for the assigned protocols on public networks. Ports 1024-65535 used to be called Registered Port Numbers (see rfc1700) but are now split into two areas (see rfc6335). Ports 1024-49151 are the User Ports and are the ones to … Read more
Something that should be noted here, and that most people overlook completely, is the fact, that the TCP checksum is actually a very poor checksum. The TCP checksum is a 16-bit ones-complement sum of the data. This sum will catch any burst error of 15 bits or less, and all 16-bit burst errors except for … Read more
RFC1700 stated it must be so. (and defined network byte order as big-endian). The convention in the documentation of Internet Protocols is to express numbers in decimal and to picture data in “big-endian” order [COHEN]. That is, fields are described left to right, with the most significant octet on the left and the least significant … Read more
The problems with TCP keepalive are: It is off by default. It operates at two-hour intervals by default, instead of on-demand as the Ping/Pong protocol provides. It operates between proxies rather than end to end. As pointed out by @DavidSchwartz, it operates between TCP stacks, not between the applications so therefore it doesn’t tell us … Read more
TCP: Size of Ethernet frame – 24 Bytes Size of IPv4 Header (without any options) – 20 bytes Size of TCP Header (without any options) – 20 Bytes Total size of an Ethernet Frame carrying an IP Packet with an empty TCP Segment – 24 + 20 + 20 = 64 bytes UDP: Size of … Read more