http://lwn.net/Articles/377391/ Article covers SCALE8x presentation from Ronald Minnich /Scandia Nat. Labs/ about issues involved running large scale networks [ >10M nodes ] . Article contains a lot of useful links, recommended reading.
http://ccie-in-3-months.blogspot.com/2010/02/get-your-hands-dirty-with-linux-on.html internal details about Cisco ASR1000 “platform” router, including hardware details (/proc/cpuinfo, dmesg)
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1489564&cid=30547976 slashdot comments on the topic listing useful network testing and emulation tools
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8172 LinuxJournal ‘2005 article about how to bridge 2 network interfaces in linux
http://lwn.net/Articles/362339/#Comments notes from LWN about RPS patch – a way to distribute incoming traffic coming from 1 source (1 NIC, 1 queue, 1 IRQ line) via multiple CPU by hashing tcp headers and distributing by hash across multiple CPU/Cores
http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/artificial_intelligence/74326/#habracut Different approaches in using neuron networks for OCR (optical character recognition) – an article in Russain
http://www.internetpulse.net/ website that monitors status of traffic exchange between Tier-1 providers
http://www.opennet.ru/base/net/adsl_shaper.txt.html shaper script for ADSL< -->Ethernet gateway
http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx website that does blacklist lookups.
http://racktables.org/ “Racktables is a nifty and robust solution for datacenter and server room asset management. It helps document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration and much much more!”