BGP is built on top of TCP layer. In order to establish the connection, BGP needs to know whether the TCP connection is successful or not. Without a socket layer, BGP has to monitor the status of the ...

Prior to Solaris 2.6, sockets were an abstraction that existed at the library level. That is, much of the socket state and socket semantics support were provided within the libsocket library. The ...

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Security and networking platforms for large enterprises and data centers are rapidly evolving in sophistication and performance. In the security space, simple packet-filtering firewalls are evolving ...

Whether it’s wired or wireless, most data communications today happens by way of packets of information travelling over one or more networks. But before these networks can work together, though, they ...