OpenID6 items tagged “networking”
Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? Fascinating optimisation tricks by some of the big websites, which violate the RFC governing the TCP slow-start algorithm in order to perform better in the common case. 
3rd December 2010, 7:03 pm
ZeroMQ: Modern and Fast Networking Stack. I get ZeroMQ now. I was having trouble figuring out how it differed from things like RabbitMQ—it turns out it’s an entirely new low-level socket abstraction, designed to make common socket programming tasks like message sending/receiving and publish/subscribe a whole lot easier than dealing with raw BSD sockets. 
5th September 2010, 7:41 pm
Writing your own traceroute in Python. How to implement traceroute in Python, using the low-level socket module. 
9th August 2010, 12:58 pm
Justniffer. Packet sniffing tool that can output sniffed HTTP traffic formatted the same way as an Apache access_log file. 
25th September 2009, 10:12 pm
Imminent Death of the Net Predicted. Well, maybe not, but the way Windows Vista deals with round-robin DNS A records (using a new IPv6 algorithm from RFC3484 backported to IPv4) means that domains that serve up multiple A records to load balance between data centres will find that the IP nearest to the 192.168.* range will get the vast majority of Vista traffic. 5th March 2009, 9:50 am
IPy. Handy Python module for manipulating IP addresses—use IP(ip_addr).iptype() == ’PUBLIC’ to check that an address isn’t in a private address range. 24th December 2007, 1:19 pm
