Appendix G. KVM Virtual Machine Timing Management

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.0/html/Administration_Guide/KVM_Clock_Appendix.html Summary: append to VM’s kernel, for i386,i686 => ‘divider=10 clocksource=acpi_pm’, for x86_64 => ‘divider=10 notsc’ This is needed to fix the drifting clock issue on VMs that are not using pv_clock driver

Appendix G. KVM Virtual Machine Timing Management

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.0/html/Administration_Guide/KVM_Clock_Appendix.html Summary: append to VM’s kernel, for i386,i686 => ‘divider=10 clocksource=acpi_pm’, for x86_64 => ‘divider=10 notsc’ This is needed to fix the drifting clock issue on VMs that are not using pv_clock driver

Configuring Multiple Default Routes in Linux « Darien Kindlund's Blog

http://kindlund.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/configuring-multiple-default-routes-in-linux/ Notes on how to get sane traffic flows for a linux box that has 2 network cards connected to the same network. NOTE: this is a required setup if you are using multiple network cards feature on AWS VPC

Configuring Multiple Default Routes in Linux « Darien Kindlund's Blog

http://kindlund.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/configuring-multiple-default-routes-in-linux/ Notes on how to get sane traffic flows for a linux box that has 2 network cards connected to the same network. NOTE: this is a required setup if you are using multiple network cards feature on AWS VPC

Configuring Multiple Default Routes in Linux « Darien Kindlund's Blog

http://kindlund.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/configuring-multiple-default-routes-in-linux/ Notes on how to get sane traffic flows for a linux box that has 2 network cards connected to the same network. NOTE: this is a required setup if you are using multiple network cards feature on AWS VPC

Kernel.org hacked ! // From: J.H. <[email protected]> Subject: [kernel.org users] [KORG] Master back-end break-in

http://pastebin.com/BKcmMd47

Kernel.org hacked ! // From: J.H. <[email protected]> Subject: [kernel.org users] [KORG] Master back-end break-in

http://pastebin.com/BKcmMd47 Kernel.org machines were hacked into, possibly via stolen credentials. Investigation is underway. Thanks to GIT crypt-signing each commit, there is no danger to linux kernel code.

A Tale of Four Kernels

http://www.spinellis.gr/pubs/conf/2008-ICSE-4kernel/html/Spi08b.html Quote from the article: “Therefore, the most we can read from the overall balance of marks is that open source development approaches do not produce software of markedly higher quality than proprietary software development.” A subjective code quality study for linux, windows, solaris and freebsd operating systems kernels

[note about ipv6 stateful firewall in linux] ] 'Re: ip6tables icmp conntracking on 2.6.18 vs 2.6.24' - MARC

http://marc.info/?l=netfilter&m=120721841603406&w=2 explanation on why `-m state –state <>’ does not work for IPv6 in older kernels

PacketShader - GPU-accelerated Software Router

Also see http://shader.kaist.edu/packetshader/io_engine/index.html and http://www.ndsl.kaist.edu/~kyoungsoo/papers/2010-lanman-100Gbps.pdf Using latest x86 hardware and GPU to build a 100GB pc router / possible theoretically, but as of now, is not coming to an ISP near you/