X-Nico

15 unusual facts about transmission control protocol


Inductive Automation

Current drivers include A-B Suite, ModbusTCP and Simple TCP/UDP, allowing users to connect to a multitude of devices such as PLCs, solar cells, lights, generators, flow meters, bar code scanners, etc.

INETCO Systems Limited

Initially, INETCO specialized in communications gateway products for dial-up point of sale and automated teller machine terminals, legacy network protocols to TCP/IP networks, transaction hosts and switches, and third-party electronic funds transfer processors for banking and payment processing.

JAUS Tool Set

Present transport options include UDP and TCP in wired or wireless networks, as well as serial connections.

JCSP

Because TCP sockets can be constructed to behave as blocking channels in the CSP sense, it is possible to distribute JCSP processes across multiple computers.

Microsoft DNS

They call library functions in the DLL, which in turn handle all communications with DNS servers (over UDP or TCP) and return the final results of the lookup back to the applications.

NewLISP

It also provides the functions expected of a modern scripting language, including support for regular expressions, XML, Unicode (UTF-8), TCP/IP and UDP networking, matrix and array processing, advanced math, statistics and Bayesian statistical analysis, financial mathematics, and distributed computing support.

Protocol Builder

Network programming for all kinds of protocols (like TCP, UDP, SNMP ... ) includes converting data to be transferred to a raw bytes in the sending side and parsing these bytes in the receiving side.

Real-time Cmix

Real-time capability was added by Brad Garton and David Topper in the mid-1990s, with support for TCP socket connectivity, interactive control of the scheduler, and object-oriented embedding of the synthesis engine into fully featured applications.

RMON

# Filter: defines packet data patterns of interest e.g. MAC address or TCP port

Stateless protocol

For example, HTTP is an example of a stateless protocol layered on top of TCP, a stateful protocol, which is layered on top of IP, another stateless protocol, which is routed on a network that employs BGP, another stateful protocol, to direct the IP packets riding on the network.

Transmission Control Protocol

That is, when an application program desires to send a large chunk of data across the Internet using IP, instead of breaking the data into IP-sized pieces and issuing a series of IP requests, the software can issue a single request to TCP and let TCP handle the IP details.

TtyEmulator

TtyEmulator is a Freeware terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols and as a serial console client.

Webmin

It defaults to TCP port 10000 for communicating, and can be configured to use SSL if OpenSSL is installed with additional required Perl Modules.

YaCy

Performance can be increased to near that of binary-only protocols (like TCP & UDP, see Disadvantages section), with the use of compression, such as gzip.

Zeus Technology

In 2004 Zeus Technology released Zeus Traffic Manager (originally 'Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager', ZXTM), based on Zeus' earlier Zeus Load Balancer product, a software load balancer for TCP and UDP based network protocols, and based on a previous Zeus Load Balancer product.


Banyan VINES

The unreliable datagram service and data-stream service operated essentially identically to UDP and TCP on top of IP.

Forwarding plane

Before or after examining the destination, other tables may be consulted to make decisions to drop the packet based on other characteristics, such as the source address, the IP protocol identifier field, or Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port number.

Ignition SCADA

Current drivers include A-B Suite, ModbusTCP, Siemens Ethernet, and Simple TCP/UDP, allowing users to connect to a multitude of devices such as PLCs, solar cells, lights, generators, flow meters, bar code scanners, etc.

Internet Mix

Mix profiles exist for IPv4, TCP, VPN (IPsec) and IPv6 traffic, distributions are similar but frame sizes vary given the different overhead and upper layer limitations on MTU.

Long-tail traffic

Ethernet, WWW, SS7, TCP, FTP, TELNET and VBR video (digitised video of the type that is transmitted over ATM networks) traffic is self-similar.

Superscan

SuperScan is a free connect-based port scanning software designed to detect open TCP and UDP ports on a target computer, determine which services are running on those ports, and run queries such as whois, ping, ICMP traceroute, and Hostname lookups.

Xerox Network Systems

Sequenced Packet Protocol (SPP) was an acknowledged transport protocol, analogous to TCP; one chief technical difference is that the sequence numbers count the packets, and not the bytes as in TCP and PUP's BSP; it was the direct antecedent to Novell's IPX/SPX.

Z/Journal

Its publisher, Thomas Communications, Inc., also publishes the Xephon Update series of mainframe-based newsletters on DB2, CICS, z/OS (formerly MVS), WebSphere (formerly MQ), TCP/SNA, RACF, and AIX.