Total Length field (16 bits) specifies the length of the entire IP packet, including data and header, in bytes. Identification field (16 bits) contains an integer that identifies the current datagram.

and the router's job is to make sure those data packets get where they are supposed to go. A packet is a small data unit that's sent from one device to another over a network. Packets break up ...

Every digital interaction whether an AI query, a cloud workload, or a simple web search begins with a data packet. But what actually happens behind the scenes? This episode explores the journey of a ...

The Internet transmits data to and from computers and networks via packets. The term "packet loss" describes the event in which a data packet fails to reach its destination. Organizations that are ...

That will not necessarily be the same route for every packet for the same data set. At the far end, in addition to the IP address identifying the intended destination, sequence numbers identify ...

But what is it, how does it work, and why should you worry about it? In a nutshell, deep packet inspection is a type of data processing that looks in detail at the contents of the data being sent ...

Tiered packet metadata also meant ISPs could more easily discriminate against types of data. With the boom of Web 2.0 and mobile in the early 2000s, ISPs realized deep packets could inspire new ...

‘Timeshifter’ encodes data as delays between packets. Depending on the length of the delay, each packet is interpreted as a one or zero. To do this, a C program uses libnetfilter_queue to ...