In packet switching architectures, multicast transmission to two or more ports is inherent to the forwarding mechanics of certain protocols while strictly operational necessities in others. For ...

The use of IP for audio and broadcast transport applications has gained increasing attention as the quality of service (QoS) of packet switched networks continually improves. The lure of reduced costs ...

Hello there guys. I have my computer hooked to a hub that links four computers together in a workgroup setup. I was fooling around with netstat and saw that I have around 129k non-unicast packets and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The consolidation of the Internet Protocol as the foundation of most communications services has ...

One minor inconvenience in writing about the worlds of video and data communications is the large amount of overlap between terminologies. Network means something completely different to a television ...

In this article I explain how the Linux kernel manages multicast traffic and how it is possible to interact with it by simply patching some kernel code. Although this is a rather specific topic, it ...

I'm getting a lot of ARP broadcast packets on my network that are clogging up the bandwidth. Using Wireshark here's an example of what I'm seeing: 671 73.961012 Dell_80:a9:13 Broadcast ARP 42 Who has ...