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William Donaldson

Transmission Control Protocol

  The Transmission Control Protocol(TCP) provides the means for connection-oriented communication in networks that utilizes the TCP/IP protocol suite. It is the most common type of session on a typical network and is designed to check for errors. TCP is very reliable and guarantees that delivery packets will be […]

SNMP

SNMP also called a Simple Network Management Protocol, is used to collect information to configure various network devices such as printers, routers, and servers on an IP network. SNMP was developed in 1988 to provide monitoring for network devices in TCP/IP networks and is now quite popular and […]

Name Resolution

              Name resolution has the task of converting domain names to their corresponding IP addresses which takes place behind the scenes and usually is not even noticed by the user. When a user inputs a domain name into an application that uses the Internet, that application will […]