Why you should understand (a little) about TCPThis isn’t about understanding everything about TCP or reading through TCP/IP Illustrated. It’s about how a little bit of TCP knowledge is essential. Here’s why. When I was at the Recurse Center, I wrote a TCP stack in Python (and wrote about what happens if you write a TCP stack in Python). This was a fun learning experience, and I thought that was all. A year later, at work, someone mentioned on
