The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) is a message-oriented Transport Layer protocol. DCCP implements reliable connection setup, teardown, ECN, congestion control, and feature negotiation. Linux had an implementation of DCCP first released in Linux kernel version 2.6.14 (released October 28, 2005). DCCP provides a way to gain access to congestion control mechanisms without having to [...]

In today’s world, internet has grown to a such an extent that nothing is possible to work without it. For every little thing you need a website from where you can get information. If your company wants to have a presence on the World Wide Web you need to have webpage featuring your company and [...]

Have You ever heard about Ventrilo? Ventrilo is a proprietary Voice over Internet Protocol program with clients for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Most users of Ventrilo use a headset or microphone and use the program to talk to each other, similar to a telephone conference call. Ventrilo is often used by multiplayer video [...]

The Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model (OSI Reference Model or OSI Model) is an abstract description for layered communications and computer network protocol design. It was developed as part of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) initiative. In its most basic form, it divides network architecture into seven layers which, from top to bottom, are the [...]

The ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) created by ARPA of the United States Department of Defense during the Cold War, was the world’s first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet. Packet switching, now the dominant basis for both data and voice communication worldwide, was a new and important concept [...]