In this hyper-connected electronic world, knowing how to send and receive data remotely with sockets is crucial. In this article, we will see how a socket is essentially a digital “plug” that we can attach to a local or remote address in order to establish a connection. We will also explore the architecture and system calls that allow us to create not only a client but also a server...
IPv4 addresses are the most common on the Internet. How can they uniquely identify every connected object? How do they facilitate data routing from one side of this vast network to the other? And why are they progressively being replaced by IPv6 addresses? We will attempt to answer these questions in this article. But before that, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to remind ourselves of the...
We all know the Internet. It’s the network that enables data transfer on a global scale. Its magnitude is staggering: there are about 5 billion users, 200 million active websites, 300 billion emails sent daily and 40 thousand Google searches every second. We access it by different means (WiFi, optical fiber, coaxial cable…), and with various devices (computers, smartphones...