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TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol and is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP complements the Internet Protocol (IP), and therefore the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP.

TCP is just one communications protocol on the web. Others include:

  • User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
  • Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
  • Post Office Protocol (POP3)
  • File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
  • Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)

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Is there an option that influences the RTO time in TCP?

I'm just trying to understand how retransmission feature works in the case of TCP on my linux box, but on the internet you can find really different information most of which is outdated or wrong, so I decided to ask the question here. When it comes…
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slapd running fine and listening on port 389, but still can't contact

Here is my ldapsearch command with debug (I've masked my real IP address): $ sudo /usr/local/bin/ldapsearch -H ldap://99.99.99.99 -b dc=my-domain,dc=com -x -d…
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Aggregated throughput of multiple connections (Linux)

Why do multiple connections from the same host achieve better throughput than multiple connections from different hosts? I suspect is something kernel-related (Linux) but a confirmation would help a lot. More details I have 1 receiver process, let's…
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Sometimes unable to tune Linux TCP stack for improved high-latency performance

I have been unsuccessfully trying to apply the TCP Tuning techniques discussed at http://fasterdata.es.net/host-tuning/ As you'll see when you read through the entire question, sometimes the es.net tuning guidelines are effective for me, other times…
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Send proper UUID over tcp

I have a small ingest TCP server that should accept a device UUID as a first message, which is only 16 bytes. I'd like to test this manually from terminal, but sending a string won't work, since it had 36 bytes and would be truncated, hence the…
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Configure Squid Proxy Server to use TCP for DNS lookups?

Is there a way to configure squid 3.5.1 to use TCP for DNS lookups? I've setup up the proxy server to use TCP for lookups by adding "options tcp" to my /etc/resolv.conf, but squid seems to be doing its own thing.
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Does ColdFusion use TCP Ports?

I am trying to access a link on our network. Whenever I try, the page times out. I have discovered that this link is a Adobe ColdFusion web page. Does ColdFusion use a TCP port other than port 80? I suspected that I have a Firewall issue however, I…
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How to prevent TCP network flood triggered by KVM VPS clients?

How to to protect nodes/ detect and block KVM VPS clients that TCP flood the network ? I use SolusVM VPS management system. Recently one abuser toke several VPSs and flood it the datacenter network. Luckily I manually found him but I need some…
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TCP traffic redirection

I am using an open source program called revinetd: revinetd.sourceforge.net On server side, revinet listens for incoming connections on a defined port to act as a relay server. Now, The server must open multiple ports in order to listen to…
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Openvpn: no response from server in tcp handshake

I am attempting to connect to an openVPN server that I created on pfSense 2.2.3 by using tunnelblick on my Macbook. Whenever I attempt to connect using either OpenVPN version 2.3.6 or 2.3.7 (all that is available on this version of tunnelblick), the…
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TCP Keepalive: Why does an idled ESTABLISHED connection end after 60 seconds, instead of tcp_keepalive_time?

I am investigating ways to mitigate a server against DoS-type attacks. In one scenario, I've opened several hundred TCP connections to my webserver. I do not send any data after the initial TCP handshake; it is an idle connection after the TCP…
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Route only on output chain?

I have two machines A and B. I want to send iperf traffic from A to B, but first have it route through a userspace program on A. I did this with a tunneling device: therefore, I used the command ip route add *B address* dev tun77. However, this…
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REDSOCKS goes 'out of file descriptors' when trying to redirect all outgoing (TCP) traffic from my Linux machine

I'm trying to redirect all outgoing TCP traffic from my linux box to the remote SOCKS5 proxy server. Currently I'm using the following rule in the OUTPUT chain: sudo iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m owner --uid-owner myuser -j REDSOCKS And the…
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How to properly configure security group at AWS?

I'm trying to reach my server's FTP-port by its Elastic IP. I've configured the security group as follows: Inbound Type Protocol Port Range Destination All traffic All All 10.0.0.0/8 Custom TCP Rule TCP …
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Upgrading Web Application's Systems' Kernels for IW10 & other related improvements - upgrade all machines? LB first? Most important?

Stackers - We're making the push to upgrade the systems for our web app to take advantage of the various TCP improvements becoming more readily available (e.g. http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2012/01/lets-make-tcp-faster.html ) We've got the kernel…
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