As ubiquitous as TCP/IP is, network programming interfaces have hardly advanced since the invention of the “Berkeley sockets” low-level networking API.

If you want a book on network programming, there are a few classic choices. [Comer’s] TCP/IP books are a great reference but sometimes is too low level. “Unix Networking Progr ...

Socket programming boils down to two systems communicating with one another. Generally, network communication comes in two flavors: Transport Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP).

More precisely, the network driver will have a look at the Protocol Type field inside the Ethernet frame header (see Figure 1) and, based on that value, forward the packet to the appropriate protocol ...

Renesas is aiming at industrial controllers by building an entire Profinet interface inside an RJ45 connector. EtherCAT and EtherNet/IP versions will follow once associated software is ready. The ...