TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol and is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP complements the Internet Protocol (IP), and therefore the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP.
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What is “armtech daemon”? [migrated]
I ran a netstap -p tcp on my machine (A macbook) and noticed a number of entries for something called localhost.armtechdaemo. Searching the web doesn't really give me anything useful.
Does anyone ...
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How to host a TCP / UDP service on the Internet which is currently running on my local machine? [closed]
I have created a TCP server and it's currently hosted on my local machine, but I want to host it on Internet like we host websites. Is there any company which provides this service? And what's the ...
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How to get a domain like this “ udp://mysite.com:80 or tcp://mysite.com:80 ” for my UDP Server ? [closed]
I want to know how to get a domain like this udp://mysite.com:80 or tcp://mysite.com:80
and also
I have created a UDP and TCP server for a Chat program and I need to host it on line.
I have ...
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Will traffic control software cause tcp packets to be dropped
I am testing our client-server applications using NetLimiter which is a traffic control software. I found that, when client is receiving files from server and I use NetLimiter to set the download rate ...
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Max client TCP connections through a router
I've just been thinking about what the maximum number of client connections would be out of my home LAN to a single server on the internet. My home router is also NAT'ing the connections to convert ...
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Socket based byte counts
I see a lot of tools to get the RX and TX byte counts for transmission on interfaces, is there any tool/program that I can use to get a total transmitted byte count for a single specified socket?
I'm ...
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Reduce firewall rules by half - one iptables rule for tcp and udp
I have a number of iptables rules on my firewall that look like this:
iptables -A zone_lan_forward -p tcp -d 1.2.3.0/24 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A zone_lan_forward -p udp -d 1.2.3.0/24 -j ACCEPT
Is ...
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Lower TCP throughput from 1Gbps server than 100Mbps server over large RTT
We've got infrastructure distributed in a few major locations around the world - Singapore, London and Los Angeles. The RTT between any two locations is over >150ms.
We've recently upgraded all of ...
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Can I find out what certificate revocation server an application is contacting?
I'm trying to install an application on a machine running Windows XP Pro.
There are two different servers being contacted, both using the same wildcard certificate (GoDaddy). One via https, one ...
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Minimal handshaking necessary before establishing TCP connection
I have a Windows PC that is running a TCP server on port 9000. I also have an FPGA which is directly connected to the PC via a 10G port. The FPGA can send ethernet frames to establish and maintain a ...
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Rsyslog not logging from remote server
I am trying to set up a centralized log server. I have central server (A) receiving logs via a remote server (B) on port 514. I know it is receiving these. Here are a few entries from a tcpdump on ...
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How to force use of tcp instead of udp for rpcbind?
I'm trying to use tcp/111 for rpcbind under Debian Wheezy instead of udp/111. The portmap in Squeeze uses tcp/111 without any special configuration, but Wheezy fails.
Even numerous sites (as well as ...
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How to solve 3 way handshake [closed]
18:19:21.543368 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 117, id 766, offset 0, flags [DF],
proto: TCP (6), length: 48) 103.84.236.14.27937 > 198.27.85.103.6010:
S, cksum 0xb8c2 (correct), 1102345511:1102345511(0) win ...
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Why is the TCP checksum inverted?
From the Wikipedia page:
The checksum field is the 16 bit one's complement of the one's complement sum of all 16-bit words in the header and text.
Why, after summing the 16-bits in the header ...
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TCP vs UDP Error-Checking
I've bounced upon two articles that describe in-depth on how TCP and UDP connections work. However there is some kind of inconsistency. Where one article tells me that UDP does no Error-Checking at ...
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tcp recycle and retransmission
TCP recycle reduces TIME WAIT by reusing sockets. It avoids collision with older packets by storing timestamp and receives packets with greater TCP timestamp. What happens when the client retransmits ...
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What process does 'own' socket in 'Time Wait' state?
Main question
I see following line in netstat. Does it means this socket doesn't belong to any process?
#>netstat -tpn|grep TIME_WAIT| head -1
tcp 0 0 ::ffff:127.0.0.1:5555 ...
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Networking with Python: No response from IP Phone [migrated]
I'm an Automation Developer and lately I've taken it upon myself to control an IP Phone on my desk (Cisco 7940).
I have a third party application that can control the IP phone with SCCP (Skinny) ...
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TCP connection termination
Say I have a App Server & DB Server. When I check the TCP connection to DB Server from App Server(using netstat), it shows like 120 connections, all with status 'ESTABLISHED'. However, when I ...
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TCP RWIN, MSS and MTU [closed]
I have been doing some reading into TCP Receive Window (RWIN), Maximum Segment Size (MSS) and Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU). Right off the bat I have some questions and I need a power user's help!
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Nagios connection reset (RST) “Misplaced TCP option (SACK)” - No data was received from host
This issue is a strange one. I have a Nagios server running for quite a while now, and all of a sudden I can't get data from 2 hosts...
The hosts are located in a different subnet:
Nagios: ...
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How to disable Xvfb using TCP ports when using pyvirtualdisplay (Python)?
Trying to use pyvirtualdisplay for Python to start some applications with a virtual Xvfb X terminal. However, we've seen port clashes and would like to disable Xvfb from using TCP ports. I have ...
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TCP Reno Window Size drops to 0
I'm working on a task on comparing TCP Tahoe and Reno.
Tahoe drops the window size to 0 every time it detects packet loss, that is clear. However, when I plot my window size for Reno, it does fast ...
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TCP/IP routing: accessing a LAN device with wrong static IP configuration
I forgot to change the static IP of a network device before moving it from my datacenter network to my home LAN. Since it isn't configured properly for my LAN network, I'm not sure how to access it.
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Cant connect to mysql server
I'm trying to configure a freshly installed mysql server to listen on port 3306.
I've removed skip_networking, I have changed bind-address=172.20.33.1 (which is my server ip) and it completely ...
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How do I get my ubuntu server to listen for database connections?
I am having a problems connecting to my database outside of phpmyadmin.
Im pretty sure this is because my server isn't listening on port 3306.
When I type:
sudo netstat -ntlp
on my OTHER working ...
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Three Duplicate acknowledgements
I understand the process of congestion avoidance where you trying to control the level of congestion in a network, and avoid loss of packets. But how can there be three acknowledgements, even if one ...
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PDU for Automatic repeat request protocols [closed]
Which PDU should be used when talking about the automatic repeat request protocols? i understand:
Data (Application Layer 7)
Segment (Transport layer 4)
Packet (Network layer 3)
Frame (Link layer 2)
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Acknowledgements in TCP [closed]
When a packet is sent in the three-way-handshake which includes Syn(synchronise) open connection and a packet is sent, this must be ack'ed(acknowledged) which i think is the sequence number of the ...
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svnserve -d child process spawning and svn connections under netstat
I see many svnserve -d processes running on my CentOS 6 box, one with the PID 400 and PPID 1 and the rest with PPID 400. I take this to mean the first one is started by init scripts (i know it is) ...
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Traceroute, ICMP, UDP and TCP
When does traceroute use TCP? Or does it just use UDP, also why does Traceroute use UDP on MacX and ICMP on windows? I thought ICMP just contains a message saying what caused the error of a packet and ...
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How to interpret findings on TCP Send/Recv Buffers
I have an application running on a CentOS machine that connects to a remote DB server on another CentOS machine. Every once in a while, without any discernable warning signs, the application seems to ...
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reset packet sent when receiving big TCP traffic
A client receives chunks of TCP segments from a server, which total 20MB or more. Sometimes the client will send RST segments to the server before terminating the TCP connection. Before sending RST ...
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Is TCP RWIN set by application or OS?
I have a situation where an application is listening on a TCP port and every once in a while, as seen in tcp dumps, gets its Receiving Window (RWIN) set to zero. When this happens, its Recv-Q stops ...
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TCP 443 Connection goes into server but never reaches Apache2 (Passenger)
We have some weird problems, when external servers try to connect to our Website on Port 443(TCP) which is an Apache2+Passenger and a Rails Application.
The problem only happens rarely. I started to ...
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How to diagnose why a port is broadcasting a “ZeroWindow” status
I have two CentOS servers (one is an app server, the other is a DB) communicating over a port. Every once in a while, the application server starts broadcasting that the port connected to the DB has a ...
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How to troubleshoot network infrastructure issues from computer side (no access to switches/routers) [closed]
I have situations where the first ping is dropped/times out between certain machines, and connections to Windows shares often time out or get dropped. I don't see errors on the NIC for these ...
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UDP packets dropped
A host sends UDP broadcast, but its UDP packets are not received by any other hosts in the same subnet. However, its TCP traffic with others hosts are OK. I observed this using tcpdump.
Could it ...
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RHEL (say 5.6, kernel 2.6.18-238) with dual IP address (IPv4v6)
So I have a SERVER that that utilizes RHEL's (assume 5.6) underlying kernel for setting up TCP connections and other networking aspects. My deployment need requires that the SERVER have dual IP ...
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IP and Port Forwarding on ASA 5505
I have an ASA 5505 with outside network of public ips 95.123.234.64/26 and inside network of private ips 10.22.33.0/24. I would like to redirect any tcp traffic that hits 95.123.234.67:80 to a public ...
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Does a growing number of TIME_WAIT connections affect server performance?
I have 2 servers, both running RHEL 6, one for Apache 2.2 and one for memcached (memcached-1.4.4-3).
I noticed an increase in the number of TIME_WAIT connections on the Apache server
netstat -n | ...
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Send TCP/IP packets down three routes and pick fastest
Does there exist a way to split TCP/IP traffic across three routes and have the first packets to reach the destination be used?
I'm imagining something like multi-homing but with the requirement that ...
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Is tcp_keepalive application dependant on Linux?
According to http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TCP-Keepalive-HOWTO/index.html , the kernel keepalive function occurs at the OS level, and doesn't require an application to explicitly call it. However I also read ...
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Problems with connecting to TCP server
I have two PCs in the same LAN: "A1" and "A2". There is another PC in a different LAN: "B". A TCP server is listening on machine "B", port 80. From machine "A1", I can connect successfully to machine ...
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Is a tcp packet with only FIN flag set valid?
got some packets dropped, but from what looks like legitimate IP
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ffmpeg simple RTMP streaming
I am trying to launch up a rtmp transcoder server using ffmpeg; that receives udp MPEG-TS streams as input, transcodes it; and generates an rtmp output to a URL, that can be accessed by users to ...
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Telnet Port 23 Not Responding' [closed]
I have an assignment that requires remote access into some Cisco routers. According to Netlab, it uses TCP port 23.
I'm unable to pass the port test. I'm on Windows 7, I've tried all major ...
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How to run Different congestion control algorithms in FEDORA 17?
I need to use different congestion control algorithms for tcp flow.
How can I continue using those flow congestion algorithms from Fedora 11 in Fedora 17?
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Which bit represents which TCP flag?
For instance, a WireShark capture filter example I found - tcp[13] & 8 == 8 represents packets with PSH flags.
How do I count the 8 ?
Based on the wikipedia image,
PSH is in the middle of ...
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SVN repo browser does not show an open TCP connection on backend
When I am connected to mysvnserver using the repo browser (TortoiseSVN), I do not see an open connection when I perform a netstat on the mysvnserver box and grep for my computer. What is the ...
