Iptables and Netfilter were introduced in 2001 along with Linux 2.4 as the full layer for firewall. The functionalities and the codes changed quite a lot during this decade, but nothing like what has been done with nftables. The motivation for this change is to...
NDIV is a young, very simple, yet efficient network traffic diverter. Its purpose is to help build network applications that intercept packets at line rate with a very low processing overhead. A first example application is a stateless HTTP server reaching line rate...
Nftables is a new packet filtering framework which aims at replacing iptables. It has been developed by the Netfilter team who wanted after 10 years of development to get rid of iptables. After a successful introduction in the 3.13 kernel and more than one year in...
Two years ago we presented our implementation of Virtual Network over TRILL in the Linux kernel. We were able to build lots of logic networks within a datacenter. Now the work continue but at a different level, we need to expand it to multiples datacenters. The...
This talk will focus on various highlights of ethernet drivers and their maintenance as the speaker was able to practice for several years to the Linux...
