This article uses a playful campus love story to illustrate how messages travel over a network, explaining the role of IP addresses, MAC addresses, broadcast domains, and the ARP protocol in translating an IP to a physical address so data can reach the recipient’s device.
This article explains Docker's native networking model, covering Linux namespaces, veth pairs, the docker0 bridge, container IP assignment, port exposure, Docker links, Libcontainer versus LXC, and the need for advanced network optimization solutions for complex cloud environments.
The article examines common misconceptions about game server performance, outlines essential message pipelines, introduces Gate as a reverse‑proxy for low‑latency scene synchronization, discusses integrating a message‑queue (MQ) for decoupled services, and presents a service‑oriented RPC framework with patterns to build maintainable, scalable multiplayer back‑ends.
The article explains the three LVS load‑balancing modes—NAT, IP tunnel, and direct routing—and details eight scheduling algorithms (Round‑Robin, Weighted Round‑Robin, Least‑Connection, Weighted Least‑Connection, Locality‑Based, Locality‑Based with Replication, Destination Hashing, and Source Hashing), describing their principles and use cases.
This article explains the principles, usage, and data flow of Linux’s abstract network devices—including bridges, 802.1q VLANs, TAP, and VETH—showing how to configure them, analyze traffic, and troubleshoot common issues within virtualized environments.
The article explains the three LVS load‑balancing modes—NAT, IP tunnel, and direct routing—and details eight scheduling algorithms, including round‑robin, weighted round‑robin, least‑connection, weighted least‑connection, locality‑based, locality‑based with replication, destination‑hashing, and source‑hashing, highlighting their principles and use cases.
This article traces the historical progression of game server architectures—from simple HTTP‑based servers for low‑interaction mobile games, through the first‑generation MUDOS engine, second‑generation database‑driven designs, third‑generation seamless world nodes with dynamic load balancing, to specialized Battle.net, casual, and modern action MMO server models—highlighting the technical motivations and challenges at each stage.
This article explains the structure and fields of IP packets, including version, header length, TOS, total length, ID, flags, fragment offset, TTL, protocol, checksum, source and destination addresses, as well as the formats and key functions of TCP and UDP headers, highlighting their differences.
This article explains IPv6 socket programming fundamentals, focusing on NAT64/DNS64 transition mechanisms, handling various IP‑stack combinations, and detecting client support, with practical code examples and workflow diagrams relevant to iOS 9 and broader platforms.
This article explains curl’s two timeout settings—--connect-timeout for limiting the connection phase and -m/--max-time for restricting the total operation—provides error examples, and shows practical command-line usages to prevent hanging processes.
This comprehensive guide reviews the essential elements of HTTP requests and responses, explains version differences, clarifies the distinctions between HTTP, Socket, and TCP, and provides practical iOS implementation details for developers seeking a deeper understanding of web communication.
This article explores four high‑performance TCP server models in .NET/C#—Asynchronous Programming Model (APM), Task‑based Asynchronous Pattern (TAP), SocketAsyncEventArgs (SAEA), and Registered I/O (RIO)—detailing their accept and read loops, implementation nuances, pooling strategies, and sample code, while highlighting performance considerations and real‑world usage.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Citrix XenServer, detailing its Xen‑based hypervisor architecture, management tools, storage and networking components, including resource pools, virtual NICs, Open vSwitch, VLAN support, and distributed switching, highlighting its role in modern cloud virtualization.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Microsoft Hyper‑V architecture, covering its evolution, deployment options, microkernel design, virtual networking components, and advanced features such as SR‑IOV and VMQ, while contrasting it with earlier Microsoft virtualization products and competing solutions.
From typing a URL to rendering a page, this article walks through each step—browser DNS lookup, HTTP request and response, redirects, server processing, content delivery, and asynchronous calls—revealing the complex interactions that make modern web browsing possible.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the HTTP protocol, covering its versions, communication processes, request and response structures, header fields, entity body handling, status codes, and practical examples of content-length and chunked transfer encoding.
This guide explains how to configure a router’s FastEthernet interface with a static IP address, enable DHCP services, set address exclusions, and configure a host to obtain its IP settings automatically, using Cisco IOS command-line syntax.
LVS (Linux Virtual Server) is a core kernel module for load balancing that forwards client requests to backend servers using three main mechanisms—Network Address Translation (NAT), IP tunneling (TUN), and Direct Routing (DR)—each with distinct packet handling and performance characteristics.
This article explains how HTTP relies on TCP/IP, clarifies the stateless nature of HTTP, compares short and long connections in HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1, and discusses the advantages, disadvantages, and appropriate use cases for each connection type.
A college student recounts how a simple Ethernet cable hack caused a network-wide broadcast storm in a dormitory, exploring the underlying VLAN and STP concepts while detailing improvised hardware tricks and the resulting chaos.
Microsoft Hyper-V is a server virtualization hypervisor introduced after acquiring Connectix, offering a microkernel architecture with parent/child partitions, VSP/VSC components, VMBus communication, and virtual networking via vSwitch, supporting private, internal, and external virtual networks, and features such as SR‑IOV and VMQ.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of VMware's storage path reliability, pluggable storage architecture, virtual machine conversion tools, high‑availability and resource‑management features such as HA, DRS, FT, vMotion, storage vMotion, DPM, as well as networking components like vDS and VMkernel ports, plus upgrade automation utilities.
This article compiles detailed interview experiences for backend engineering roles at major Chinese tech firms, covering algorithm challenges, system design, networking, compiler concepts, and personal reflections that help candidates prepare effectively.
This guide walks through creating VLAN 10, assigning an IP address, setting up local AAA users, enabling telnet access, and activating the HTTP server on a Quidway switch, including file management commands and verification steps.
This article explains how to configure ACLs and NAT on a campus router, including static global NAT, outbound NAT with Easy‑IP, loopback interface setup, and verification steps to ensure internal users can reach the server via the public IP address.
The article summarizes DockerCon 2015, detailing Docker's rapid growth, roadmap for multi‑container management, plugin and networking architectures, security practices, vendor showcases, and the emerging Open Container Project, providing a comprehensive view of Docker's direction and ecosystem.
With IPv4 address pools depleted across North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America, the article explains the impending end of IPv4, the limited options for ISPs, and urges accelerated adoption of IPv6, which offers a vastly larger address space but currently sees low global usage.
This article explains the fundamentals of DNS, covering its purpose, hierarchical structure, key concepts like FQDN and resource records, query mechanisms, server types, ports, and the step‑by‑step process browsers use to resolve domain names into IP addresses.
This article explains Netty's autoread switch, isWritable back‑pressure mechanism, and serialization strategies, showing how to control read/write rates, avoid thread‑pool overload, and reduce memory copies when handling TCP byte streams in high‑performance Java network applications.
The article reviews various definitions of Software‑Defined Networking, examines its primary use in network virtualization, discusses additional application areas, outlines obstacles to adoption, critiques OpenFlow limitations, and offers practical recommendations for successful SDN deployment.
This guide explains how to set up a Linux server with two network cards so that internal traffic uses its own NIC while external traffic uses the other, including default gateway configuration and persistent route commands.
The article explains a classic MMORPG zone architecture, detailing six key connections—including WebService pipelines and TCP/IP links—that manage account updates, role control, server registration, client validation, and cross‑server data exchange, and describes how UserServer and GameServer interact to provide stable, scalable gameplay.
