First off, howdy and welcome to the inaugural post of the EtherGeek blog. My name is Josh Stephens and I’m Head Geek and VP of Technology at SolarWinds, an IT management software company in Austin.

According to the OSI Model, the session layer is where connections are established, managed, and torn down. For connection-oriented network protocols, understanding how the session layer works, and ...

The OSI model divides network communication into seven distinct layers, each responsible for specific functions in data transmission. Upper layers (application, presentation, session) handle data ...

To understand the differences between the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol and the Open Systems Interconnection model, it's helpful to first dig into the individual protocols.