Articles & notes
Long-form explainers and short technical notes. Articles are added sporadically — whenever something is worth writing down.
Recent
Why TCP timestamps still matter draft
A practical look at RFC 7323 and how disabling timestamps affects PAWS and RTT estimation.
BBR vs CUBIC: a short benchmark draft
Comparative measurements of TCP congestion control algorithms on lossy long-haul links.
Reading BGP communities draft
An overview of common community schemes used by transit providers and IXPs.
Anatomy of a TLS 1.3 handshake draft
Step-by-step walkthrough of TLS 1.3 with packet captures and field-by-field annotation.
More articles are in preparation.