Networking

Knowledge Base - How to install VMXNET network adapter and driver for VM’s in ESX Server

http://networkadminkb.com/kb/Knowledge%20Base/VMWare/How%20to%20install%20VMXNET%20network%20adapter%20and%20driver%20for%20VM%92s%20in%20ESX%20Server.aspx by default vmware installs “pcnet32” network card which is a software emulation of 100MB card; most ppl switch

TCP Tuning Guide [Office of Science, DOE, US GOV]

http://fasterdata.es.net/TCP-tuning/ Excellent site provides both theoretical background and practical recommendation for the situation when you need to push limits of TCP links using regular OS and commodity hardware. Especially useful if you need to do it via long-haul fast TCP link, i.e. the situation when you normally use specialized networking hardware (read: cisco)

Understanding QoS on the Internet [slashdot comment on Bittorrent and VoIP in SOHO routers]

http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=596703&cid=23959669 ? “Why VoIP is usless when I download something on bittorent; can I twik my router to fix it” ?

Network channels. [experimental linux kernel code]

http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/old/?section=projects&item=netchannel Network channel is a protocol agnostic communication channel between hardware and userspace. Basically it allows very fast delivery from network hardware to userspace All protocol processing happens in process’ context.

Linux Userspace network stack.

http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/old/?section=projects&item=unetstack it’s faster than standard in-kenrel implementation, but has limited featutures.

CARP - [kernel-mode] OpenBSD CARP realization for Linux kernel 2.6.

http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/old/?section=projects&item=carp CARP is an improved version of the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) standard. It has more features than Cisco’s HSRP. There is another[user-space] implementation called ucarp. This version does not compartable with OpenBSD CARP.

InformIT: Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Logging [4 pages with adds :( ]

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=424447 actually a good article explaining issues with ntp and login config for asa and pixes

10-GE_Routing_on_Linux.pdf (application/pdf Object)

http://docs.rodecker.nl/10-GE_Routing_on_Linux.pdf paper describing linux 10G ethernet performance as per RFC2544

Networking scalability on high-performance servers

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-scalability/?ca=dgr-lnxw02FasterLinuxNet SMP and network performace in linux (tcp only, no forwarding)

BSD [and linux] Router / Firewall Testing

http://www.tancsa.com/blast.html results, data and following discussion from 2006 test of routing performance