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Multi-Path TCP: revolutionizing connectivity, one path at a time

CloudFaire

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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CCNA: IP Routing

The Network DNA

In one of the articles , we talk about layer 2 switching where switches build the MAC address table to decide where to forward frame based on the destination MAC address. Here well see how a layer 3 switch or a router transmit packets between different networks using the layer 3 destination address.

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Why latency is the new outage

Kentik

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. Each switch and router we pass through introduces a bit of latency that adds up quickly. How latency is measured.

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How to find applications with NetFlow

Kentik

Back in the 1990s, NetFlow was introduced on Cisco routers as a means to collect information about IP network traffic as it enters or exits an interface. Source IP address. Destination IP address. IP protocol. Source port for UDP or TCP, 0 for other protocols. IP type of service.

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Facebook’s historic outage, explained

Kentik

According to a statement published last night, Facebook Engineering wrote, “Configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication.” tfbnw.net — which is another router inside AS32934 that belongs to Facebook. So what happened?

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How to measure the performance of a website

Kentik

Or, perhaps one or more of the 10-20 routers in the path needed to reach the destination gets busy for a hundred milliseconds or so. Domain lookup time : When a connection is made to a domain, the local operating system must first reach out to the DNS to resolve that hostname to an IP address. Where is the DNS?

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Resilience and Redundancy in Networking

Kentik

Message integrity and guaranteed delivery with TCP/IP Because IP does not require acknowledgments from endpoints, it does not ensure delivery; therefore, it is considered an unreliable protocol. On the other hand, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) provides a connection-based, reliable byte stream.

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