Having a collection can be fun, but there's no need to spend a fortune on it when these little tabletop packets are widely ...

There are few things more frustrating than trying to work, game, or stream a movie and experiencing stuttering, pausing, and other unstable behavior due to a dodgy internet connection. Even if your Wi ...

Network geeks among you may remember my article, “Linux Socket Filter: Sniffing Bytes over the Network”, in the June 2001 issue of LJ, regarding the use of the packet filter built inside the Linux ...

With cybercrime taking the enterprise ecosystem by storm, the issue of securing a network infrastructure along with restricting employee access to unwanted internet resources is a top-of-mind priority ...

Everything you stream and share is broken into network packets. Learn how this enables the seamless flow of data that powers the internet. Network packets are small units of data that are sent from ...

Countless pieces of software, protocols and complex interdependencies together form a system for which it is difficult to guarantee any particular property—particularly security. Even software ...

When discussing Ethernet data, the terms frame and packet are often used interchangeably. Frames and packets are the electronic containers that carry our data from point-to-point by navigating LANs ...

Colocation and connectivity firm Equinix is buying Packet, a bare network cloud provider, which operates from data centers including Equinix's own, and is also developing an Edge computing business.