Networking

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/360 how to setup bridging networking in Xen

http://www.3nity.ru/viewtopic.htm?p=68566&highlight=#68566 how to spread iptables/netfilter load to different cpus: bound device by irq to cpu core

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-scalability/index.html?S_TACT=105AGX01&S_CMP=LP number of benchmarks of linux networking on SMP servers, with some tuning suggestions.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-scalability/ How to avoid problems with Linux networking scalability on high-performance systems

http://serpentf.livejournal.com/560.html [Russian] emulation of nework setup using dynagen and vmware

http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/ RANCID monitors a router’s (or more generally a device’s) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System) or Subversion to maintain history of changes.

http://www.fsckin.com/2007/11/14/7-different-linuxbsd-firewalls-reviewed/ (somewhat lame review, but it is useful nevertheless)

http://highscalability.com/joost-network-architecture http://www.royans.net/files/MacCarthaigh-Joost.pdf – PDF slides

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/562 experimental netfilter module ipp2p for P2P trafiic

http://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=14:45027-2 (In russian) 1st post on the topic contains interesting info about load in ISP-level networks