I have this scenario where the MAC address table in my switch ages out MAC addresses of devices that it hasn't heard from after 5 minutes. I could extend this time, but the scenario also requires that ...

In the last issue we started following a packet's journey from the wire up to the higher levels of network stack processing. We left the packet at the end of layer 3 processing, where IP has ...

This is a follow-on to a post here where I'm struggling to send UDP packets through IPTables. The more I've read the less I realize I understand what's going on behind the scenes and I suspect it'll ...

Have you ever performed surgery on data packets? There are times when that may be the best way to troubleshoot and optimize your network. This edition of the Packet Professor will get you started in ...

Countless pieces of software, protocols and complex interdependencies together form a system for which it is difficult to guarantee any particular property—particularly security. Even software ...

When designing FPGA-based Ethernet connected embedded systems the priority and necessity of requirements such as cost, area, flexibility etc. varies for each system. Simplified for most systems, it ...