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 ...

During one of my regular trips to reddit, I stumbled upon an amazingly helpful Linux I/O stack diagram: It's quite comprehensive and it can really help if you're digging through a bottleneck and ...

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 ...

Software routers based on off-the-shelf hardware and open-source operating systems are gaining more and more momentum. The reasons are manifold: first, personal computer (PC) hardware is broadly ...