Hacker News with Generative AI: Internet Protocols

Mptcp: Revolutionizing connectivity, one path at a time (cloudflare.com)
The Internet is designed to provide multiple paths between two endpoints. Attempts to exploit multi-path opportunities are almost as old as the Internet, culminating in RFCs documenting some of the challenges. Still, today, virtually all end-to-end communication uses only one available path at a time.

Networking, Internet Protocols, Performance Optimization, Multipath TCP

7 points by majke 15 days ago | 4 comments

The “simple” 38 step journey to getting an RFC (benjojo.co.uk)
The Internet is built on the mutual understanding of network protocols and practices, and most of those protocols are defined using Request For Comments (RFC) or Best Common Practices (BCP) documents.

Networking, RFC, Internet Protocols

141 points by greyface- 44 days ago | 30 comments

TCP over TCP is a bad idea (2000) (archive.org)
A frequently occurring idea for IP tunneling applications is to run a protocol like PPP, which encapsulates IP packets in a format suited for a stream transport (like a modem line), over a TCP-based connection.

Networking, TCP/IP, Internet Protocols

86 points by Deeg9rie9usi 86 days ago | 50 comments

The fix for BGP's weaknesses has big issues of its own, boffins find (theregister.com)
The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) protocol has "software vulnerabilities, inconsistent specifications, and operational challenges" according to a pre-press paper from a trio of German researchers.