Managing TCP Packet Fragmentation and Coalescing in Netty

TCP operates as a stream-oriented protocol, treating transmitted data as an unbounded sequence of bytes without inherent message boundaries. When applications exchange information over TCP, the underlying network stack may fragment a single logical message into multiple segments or merge several small payloads into a larger segment. This behavi ...

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