Network Programming for Microsoft Windows , Second Edition (Microsoft Programming Series)

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MAC address, 20

Mail servers and port 25, 6. see also SMTP

Masking operation, 18–20

Maximum Segment Size (MSS), 90, 92–93

Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU)

ensuring full-sized segments, 130–131

stack configuration, 141

TCP_MAXSEG option, 92–93

Memory

storage formats, 33–34

swapping byte order, 34

Multicasting

multicast datagram server/client design, 281–282

multicast group options, 94, 98–101

multicast mode, 13

multicast server/client

C language, 298–302

Java, 325–329

Perl, 371–374

Python, 349–352

Ruby, 393–396

Tcl, 415–418

MulticastSocket class (Java), 178

Multi-homed nodes, writing servers for, 109–113

Multiple interfaces, listening on, 149–150

Multiple sockets, 137

Multistreaming, 11