Tag
link-layer
- Dec 19, 2025 Neighbour Cache Staleness and Peers That Become Unreachable How ARP and Neighbor Discovery entries age through reachable, stale, and probe states, and why a stale entry keeps sending traffic to an address that has moved. networking
- Jul 18, 2025 Link Aggregation Member Selection and the Mismatches That Stall It How frames are hashed onto bundle members, why a single flow cannot exceed one link, and which LACP negotiation failures leave a bundle passing some traffic. networking
- Jan 9, 2025 Fitting FDDI Management into an 802 Frame: Ancillary Data and the Unused ALT Field How FDDI carried station management frames, what the alternative media access control field was specified to select, and why a general-purpose slot in a frame header did not produce the architectural flexibility its designers expected. computing history