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How do IP answer packets reach their destination inside of a private LAN?
This is a little theory question that has been confusing me for a pretty long time.
Basically, if we are inside of a private LAN, and we want incoming packets to reach, for example, an HTTP server ...
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Minimum size of the data part of TCP segment
My question has two parts:
I know that the "data" part of an Ethernet frame can be 46~1500 bytes. Considering the IP header of 20 bytes + TCP header of 20 bytes, the minimum "data" size of a TCP ...
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tcpdump missing on Cygwin v1.7.7 for packet sniffing
I am trying to debug why my TCP packets are truncated. I see that only the first 24 bytes of each packet are showing up in my program. The 25th through 28th bytes are scrambled and all others after ...
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What's the minimum size of a TCP packet
A post here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2011/02/optimal-css-tiled-background-image-size.html
staes that "The smallest download that browsers can do is 1K bytes."
Is this due to minimum size ...
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How does Router know where to forward packet
If several computers with local addresses (192.168.0.#) are connected to a router and each computer opens a web browser and requests a page over HTTP, when these TCP:80 packets are sent out, the ...
