The Life of a Network Packet in Linux
A practical guide from <span>write()</span> to <span>recv()</span>. You ran <span>curl http://example.com</span>, and now you see some HTML in the terminal, but what actually happened? Linux takes your bytes through a series of defined steps: selecting a path, finding the neighbor’s MAC address, queuing the packet for the network interface card (NIC) to send, and then … Read more