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Problems with MDNS flooding on port 5353 UDP

I am running into a big issue at a small network i manage. This network is an Apple network, with airport extremes, expresses, mac book pro's, imac's, ipads, iphones etc... I went to add something to ...
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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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Just one client bound to address and port: does it make a difference broadcast versus unicast in terms of overhead?

Scenario: I am implementing failed over for a network node, so my idea is to make the master node listens on a broadcast ip address and port. If the master node fails, another failover node will ...
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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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Where is the documentation that states TCP and UDP source port should be over 1024 and random?

I am having a hard time to find where it is documented that the source port should be random and in the range 1024-65535. In which RFC is this documented? Edit: First reference for privileged ports ...
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How is the MTU is 65535 in UDP but ethernet does not allow frame size more than 1500 bytes

I am using a fast ethernet of 100 Mbps, whose frame size is less than 1500 bytes (1472 bytes for payload as per my textbook). In that, I was able to send and receive a UDP packet of message size 65507 ...
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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 ...