Ask HN: What made you click TCP, THE TRANSPORT LAYER OF INTERNET?

1 shivajikobardan 1 6/30/2025, 7:46:34 AM

Been stuck in tcp since lots of hours. Seems like the big picture isn't getting into head. Feels like i understand most stuffs but still.. Go back n, selective repeat and stuffs like that i am at present. Slifing window...packet format memorization is not a big deal. I want yo understand the inner infrastructure engineering

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baobun · 7h ago

I guess everyone learns differently but getting your hands dirty and playing around with it (maybe build your own simple app+protocol if thats your thing) and inspecting traffic in wireshark under variojs conditions is a great way to get that intuition up.

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Ask HN: What made you click TCP, THE TRANSPORT LAYER OF INTERNET?

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