Interactive TCP / IP animation guide


This animated guide allows a viewer to observe a complete route of information sent from a PC browser flowing trough the network to a recipient server and back

  • The animation shows:
    • Three-way handshake
    • TCP connection establishment
    • encapsulations at ISO/OSI model layers
    • facilitated look at the headers on each layer
    • current location of the information in the network

CONTROLS and NAVIGATION:

  • The animation consists of 24 steps and automatically stops at the begining of the each step.
  • You can navigate through the animation steps by pressing the arrow keys - LEFT and RIGHT.
  • To play/pause the animation press SPACE whenever you want.
  • You can also use your mouse to click on any of 24 buttons representing the animation steps.
  • For presentation purposes:
  • PAGE_UP = back
  • PAGE_DOWN = play/pause