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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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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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Way to do basic WAN optimization between two Linux servers that splits single connection into multiple parallel ones? [closed]

There are utilities on Linux that allow you to work around WAN conditions which cause you to not be able to utilize your full bandwidth. They do this by performing multiple requests in parallel (for ...
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Why tcp/ip model is being used for Developing Protocols and not OSI [closed]

why TCP/IP model is used for designing Protocols and why not OSI model,if i am not wrong OSI is the first reference model and in TCP/IP model same concept is followed but coupled with other layers. ...
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Where are my TIME_WAITs on Mac OS X?

No TIME_WAITs on Mac OS X Normally, when a TCP connection is closed, the socket on the side where close() is called first is left in the TIME_WAIT state. When one of the peers is a Mac OS X (Lion) ...
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HTTP, TCP, UDP and connectionless

I am a bit confused with HTTP lately. Some facts are that TCP can operate connection orientated or connectionless this I understand. TCP though is connection-oriented while UDP is connectionless ...
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What am I misunderstanding about calculating MTU?

Okay, I just finished resolving a jumbo frames issue between a few Xserves, a Netgear GSM7224, and a Drobo B800i. It turned out that the Xserves (Mac OS X 10.6.8 Server) and the Drobo B800i accept the ...
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What would cause my SendMail server not to acknowledge receiving a TCP Sequence?

My TCP/IP Stack knowledge is a little rusty so please bear with me.... I have a CentOS 5.7 server with SendMail and am having seeing intermittent timeout issues sending email (particularly larger ...
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Disabling Operating System TCP Management

Is there a way to disable TCP state management of OS, for example on a specific port, or on another ip or if not, disabling the whole tcp management and managing it in an application with root access? ...
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How to optimize TCP / IP stack in Linux? [closed]

Currently I noticed there are about 15K open connections to localhost. It is mainly connecting to Memcached. I am clueless where I should start to optimize TCP/IP stack. Memcached support UDP, but ...
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Maintaining same TCP session, load balacing

With http live streaming (HLS) we need to deliver video segments one after other to the player to play them in a continuous fashion. Segments are present on many streaming servers and we would load ...
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Detecting TCP/IP connection drop issues in my application

I have a desktop application which talks to a server using TCP/IP. It was working before but now we are running into an issue. The log message on the server shows that the socket is disconnected after ...
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Nmap reporting incorrect results from an idle scan

I have a VPS that I was scanning to make sure everything is in check. A regular SYN scan reports that ports 25 and 80 are open (which they should be). When I run an idle scan however, I get back that ...
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Behaviour of solaris tcp stack with relatively high RTT and bursty traffic

I have an application that is distributing data from New York to Tokyo over TCP running Solaris 10. Mean throughput is < 1Mbps, peak throughput can reach 20-30Mbps for seconds at a time though ...
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Can a TIME_WAIT connection be restored?

Is it possible to restore a connection that is in state TIME_WAIT? If not, I use raw packets (forgering the source), is it possible? (Please understand that I do not intend to do bad things, it's ...
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different ACK behaviors (slowing down throughput?)

I'm running netio (http://freshmeat.net/projects/netio/) on one machine (opensolaris) and contacting two different Linux machines (both on 2.6.18-128.el5 ), machine A and machine B. Machine A has a ...
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Windows 2008 TCP Performance

Some background... I am currently building a domain drop catch application using C#. It uses a single Socket, which sends data through an SslStream. I have spent weeks on the app and I am 100% sure ...
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What is a RP Paket in a tcpdump log?

I have a tcpdump log with the following entry: 14:53:31.428570 IP 10.4.65.65.16666 > 192.168.201.10.80: RP 587:687(100) ack 48545454154 win 0 My Problem is that i have never seen an RP paket ...
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Where do ack-only sent packets come from (on FreeBSD)?

I run the systat -tcp command on a moderately loaded system and see something like this for a 5 second window: /0 /1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 /7 /8 /9 /10 Load Average ...
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No transmission via IP

I'm using netstat on Win XP to check protocol transmission details for TCP, IP, and ICMP. There is transmission only in TCP. No transmission in ICMP is understandable since it's for errors and I ...
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Which is the default TCP connect timeout in Windows?

Which is the default TCP connect timeout in Windows? There is a registry key to configure it or it's set dynamically?
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Detect and aggregate packets sent to server per TCP port

Is there a way with Ubuntu 10.4LTS to detect and aggregate the number of packets transmitted over every port? In other words, I'd like a process to keep track of the number of packets sent to each ...
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TCP RST Reset Every 5 Minutes on Windows 2003 sp2

Recently I had a web developer come to me and ask why he was receiving connection errors in his app that was accessing a sql database. So, I went through my normal trouble shooting steps to isolate ...
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Can I make TCP/IP session to run less than 60 seconds?

Our server is overloaded with TCP/IP sessions, we have 1200 - 1500 of them. Most of them are hanging in TIME_OUT state. It turns out that a connection in TIME_OUT state occupies a socket until 60 ...
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How to enable TCP Vegas on Centos 5.4?

I'm trying to enable TCP Vegas congestion control on Centos 5.4 box. According to Vegas home page it is as simple as echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas_cong_avoid but this file does not exist. I ...
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What causes a delay of 100 ms in initiating an HTTP connection?

Settings: this is a quad CPU machine, plenty strong, not loaded at all (neither CPU nor network), the client is a Windows Server 2008 64bit, the server is a linux box. I have four threads that are ...
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Why am I getting long TCP connect latency on connect in a LAN (over a cross!)?

I am measuring a time of about 100-150 milliseconds from sending TCP SYN to getting SYN/ACK, between two linux computers connected to the same Cisco switch. Consider: The machines are very powerful, ...
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Big IP orphaned connections

Let me state up-front that I know just enough about networking at this level to be dangerous, so if I say something stupid, please be kind. I am using a Big IP load balancer in front of 3 Apache ...
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Why does the TCP Chimney Offload feature on some ethernet cards fail to pass some network packets to the OS?

In http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942861 Microsoft reports that in some situations Microsoft SQL Server experiences network issues due to the network card having a TCP Chimney Offload turned on. I ...
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What is the difference between UDP and TCP?

My router has two protocols (and a "both" option) that I can select when setting up port forwarding: UDP and TCP. What is the difference between these two protocols and when would you select one over ...