CloudFaire

JANUARY 3, 2025

As a result, Internet devices usually use a single path and let the routers handle the path selection. Enter Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP), which exploits the presence of multiple interfaces on a device, such as a mobile phone that has both Wi-Fi and cellular antennas, to achieve multi-path connectivity. There is another way.

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TCP Port Server Advertising 137

Kentik

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Not as difficult as time travel, but it’s difficult enough so that for 30+ years IT professionals have tried to skirt the issue by adding more bandwidth between locations or by rolling out faster routers and switches. Over the last few decades network managers have focused on adding bandwidth and reducing the network outages.

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Kentik

JANUARY 13, 2021

Sometimes, your connections don’t have enough bandwidth. Send these pings using the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) or TCP to one or any of the devices you believe to be involved. Ping is a utility that’s available on practically every system, be it a desktop, server, router, or switch. Packets simply get dropped.

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Network Networking TCP Protocol 114

CATO Networks

OCTOBER 30, 2019

We all get the concept: to transmit data over a TCP/IP network like the Internet requires the data be broken down into small packets (usually less than 1500 bytes) containing the relevant application data (payload) and headers. Common causes of packet loss include: Routers with heavy CPU load. Security breaches. Misconfigurations.

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WAN Routers TCP Protocol 52

CATO Networks

JUNE 1, 2020

The challenge in the underlying causes of packet loss can be anything from overworked routers to network congestion to software bugs. Proxy TCP Connections Fundamentally, TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) connections inherently add more overhead than their UDP (User Datagram Protocol) counterparts.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 26, 2016

There isnt going to be a shiny new router that would magically solve it all. If they are lost along the way, it is the responsibility of higher-level protocols such as TCP to recover them. Packets hop from router to router, only aware of their next hop and their ultimate destination.

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Internet Routers MPLS Protocol 52

Kentik

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

An internal routing scheme so that every router in a given AS knows how to get to every other router and destination within the same AS. One or multiple border routers. This peering connection is used by border routers in one AS to “advertise” routes to border routers in a different AS (more on this below).

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