In the world of digital networks, there exist tools that serve as silent watchers, capturing and deciphering the hidden language of data packets. These tools are known as packet sniffers. Packet ...

Packet-switching networks -- networks which break data up into chunks called packets before transport -- help make your business communications stable and efficient. Once used only for data ...

In a column about syslog [see “syslog Configuration” in the December 2001 issue of LJ] I mentioned “stealth logging”--by running your central log server without an IP address, you can hide your ...

Keysight Technologies is adding AI capabilities to its Vision packet brokers and also allowing third-party applications to run inside their packet brokers to boost AI-driven network intelligence.

I'v got a relatively new ASUS n56u router. I turned on logging of dropped packets the other day and notice that a couple times a minute there are dropped packets being logged from IP addresses I don't ...

Network packet brokers (NPB) have played a key role in helping organizations manage their management and security tools. The tool space has exploded, and there is literally a tool for almost ...

Conventional VPNs funnel traffic through large server clusters or multi-hop paths, but Datagram VPN establishes a direct ...

Everything you stream and share is broken into network packets. Learn how this enables the seamless flow of data that powers the internet. Network packets are small units of data that are sent from ...

A team of researchers from MIT, Caltech, Harvard, and other universities in Europe, have devised a way of boosting the performance of wireless networks by up to 10 times -- without increasing ...

Have you ever performed surgery on data packets? There are times when that may be the best way to troubleshoot and optimize your network. This edition of the Packet Professor will get you started in ...