TCP/IP network programming in C on Linux is good fun. All the advanced features of the stack are at your disposal, and you can do lot of interesting things in user space without getting into kernel ...

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 ...

TCP/IP is the networking glue that binds the computing universe together. Every business uses it, most wired and wireless devices speak it, and corporate network users expect TCP/IP capabilities in ...

You're using blocking sockets, so read will not terminate until the connection is closed from the other end, or until 128 octets are read. I suppose the other side is sending data less than 128 octets ...

Want to know more about how your system is communicating? Try the Linux ss command. It replaces the older netstat and makes a lot of information about network connections available for you to easily ...

FRANKLIN, MA: Riverace Corporation has released its new white paper, "How to Avoid the Top Ten Sockets Programming Errors" aimed at developers and software managers. The "How to Avoid the Top Ten ...

A socket is defined as the endpoint of a two-way communication between two processes running over a network. Inter-process communication can be achieved using sockets. After a connection between the ...