A set of vulnerabilities in TCP/IP stacks used by FreeBSD and three popular real-time operating systems designed for the IoT was revealed this week by security vendor Forescout and JSOF Research ...

NicheStack is a TCP/IP stack that was originally developed in 1996 or earlier by a company called InterNiche Technologies and was extended to support the new IPv6 technology in 2003.

It borrows from both but is most similar to TCP. It is a reliable session-oriented protocol, like TCP. It adds new features and options and allows finer control over the transport of packets. In all ...

In addition to the ADSST-218X series DSP with the SmartStack TCP/IP stack and the integrated controller, it includes modem code and an intregrated data pump, and is available in a 100-pin package.

This avoids a major problem of TCP, head-of-line blocking, but it also allows applications that deal with multiple logical streams to be written more easily. The next and final article will look at ...