Packet Processing in Linux Introduction to Packet Flow. Packet flow in Linux starts from the network interface card (NIC) and travels through various layers of the kernel before reaching user-space ...

Network geeks among you may remember my article, “Linux Socket Filter: Sniffing Bytes over the Network”, in the June 2001 issue of LJ, regarding the use of the packet filter built inside the Linux ...

Linus Torvalds releases version 2.6.35 of the Linux kernel. The site cited a benchmark test showing how an eight-core Intel CPU-based server, with an Intel e1000e network adapter, doubled the ...