Network Protocols

Last Updated on 12 April 2011, Total: 48 Articles and Tutorials

This section contains articles that will help you understand how networked computers communicate with each other using a pre-defined set of rules, otherwise known as a protocol.

  1. Understanding the FTP Protocol

    Out of the many protocols in existence today only a couple have been written for the purpose of data transfer. After all, not all of the Internet’s activity revolves around HTTP and web pages. This article will cover the FTP protocol and how it goes about actually doing your data transfers for you... Read More

  2. Understanding the ICMP Protocol (Part 2)


  3. Understanding the ICMP Protocol (Part 1)


  4. Understanding the UDP Protocol


  5. Understanding the TCP/IP Protocol (Part 3)


  6. Understanding the TCP/IP Protocol (Part 2)

    In part one of this article series we laid out the background information necessary to tackle this article’s information. Contained in this article is the actual breakdown of a packet’s contents, and what they mean. This type of low level TCP/IP information will enable you to make far better judgement calls when investigating network issues at the packet level... Read More

  7. Understanding the TCP/IP Protocol (Part 1)

    The world of computer networking is built upon a series of protocols. These very same protocols are the worker bees that keep the packets flowing from one computer to another. Gaining an understanding of them greatly helps one to understand how computers talk to each other. This series of articles will attempt to convey that very knowledge... Read More

  8. Introduction to the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Part 1


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