Sandwiched between the IP stack and the driver queue is the queueing discipline (QDisc) layer (Figure 1). This layer implements the traffic management capabilities of the Linux kernel, which include ...

$49.95 Thomas Herbert's book The Linux TCP/IP Stack: Networking for Embedded Systems is a thorough guided tour of the Linux kernel TCP/IP implementation. Herbert builds his description of Linux ...

With the rapid progress of high-speed network technology, the communication speed between hosts will reach Gbit/s. So it is important to investigate the traditional TCP/IP protocol stack to find out ...

In this paper we focus only on the data plane performance and compare the default Linux IP stack with the Click modular IP stack in terms of the forwarding throughput. The results are surprising and ...