Understanding 3 Way Handshake with Termshark through Packets
What are Network Packets?
How do we transmit data over a network? Establishing a connection with the recipient and sending the data all at once might seem like the most straightforward approach. However, this method becomes inefficient when handling multiple requests because a single connection can only maintain one data transfer at a time. If a connection is prolonged due to a large data transfer, other data will have to wait.
To efficiently handle the data transmission process, networks divide data into multiple pieces and require the receiving end to reassemble them. These fragmented data structures are called packets. Packets include additional information to allow the receiving end to reassemble the data in the correct order.
While transmitting data in multiple packets enables efficient processing of many requests through packet switching, it can also lead to various errors such as data loss or incorrect delivery order. How should we debug such issues? 🤔