Networking
IPv6 was supposed to save the internet from address exhaustion back in the 1990s, yet three decades later the transition remains incomplete. This article explores the technical, economic, and regulatory reasons why IPv4 stubbornly refuses to die.
Networking
A practical guide to upgrading your home network to 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet without breaking the bank, covering cables, network cards, switches, and real-world performance testing with a NAS.
Networking
An engineer experiments with sending IP packets using a made-up transport protocol number, testing what the OS, NAT devices, and the internet itself do with non-standard traffic. The results reveal how deeply the network stack assumes TCP/UDP.