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Tutorial: Networking 101: TCP In More Depth

09/25/2008  
Part two of Charlie Schluting's overview of TCP covers the basics of TCP connections and flow control.
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Tutorial: Networking 101: Understanding TCP, the Protocol

09/18/2008  
Our replay of Charlie Schluting's excellent Networking 101 series continues with a two-part dissection of TCP. Understanding the ubiquitous TCP is key to troubleshooting networking communications.
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Implement load-balancing, port forwarding, and rate-limiting with shd-tcp-tools

09/18/2008  
shd-tcp-tools provides a collection of tools for port forwarding, load balancing, and rate-limiting TCP connections. They can be useful if you want to offer SSH services but also limit how much of your bandwidth each user can consume, so that a single long-running SCP operation cannot starve the link from your server to the Internet.
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Tutorial: Networking 101: Understanding the Internet Protocol

09/13/2008  
Welcome back! Charlie Schluting, in this edition of Networking 101, will give you the IP knowledge required to understand routing issues. Most everything on the Internet uses IP, and unlike Ethernet, knowing this protocol is pivotal to understanding how networking works with regards to the big picture. In upcoming articles, Networking 101 will explore TCP and UDP, routing theories, and then delve into the specific routing protocols. It's going to be a wild ride.
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Keeping your SSH connections alive with autossh

05/17/2008  
With autossh, you can monitor your SSH connections and restart them if they stop sending traffic or SSH exits abnormally. This makes autossh perfect for keeping secure port forwarding available. Some readers will be familiar with the TCPKeepAlive, ServerAliveInterval, and ServerAliveCountMax options to SSH itself. TCPKeepAlive causes TCP keepalive messages to be sent to the server, allowing SSH to detect if it can no longer contact the server. ServerAliveCountMax and ServerAliveInterval cause the SSH client to send traffic through the encrypted link to the server, and can be used both the avoid a connection being closed due to inactivity and to have the SSH client exit if traffic cannot be returned from the server for a specified amount of time.
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Performance Tradeoffs of Linux TCP SACK

04/09/2008  
Recently there has been significant discussion ofLinux's TCP SACK implementation, and its weakness within the Linux TCP stack. SACK is an optional feature of TCP necessary for effective use of all available bandwidth of some networks. However, processing this type of acknowledgment can be CPU intensive for the TCP sender, and thus a weakness which can be exploited by a malicious peer.
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Learn how to use nmap, and nmap GUI, a great port scan tool

01/03/2008  
Nmap is a must have tool for network administrators, it helps to discover computers in the network, see what services they are offering (ports open), works with TCP and UDP, and on this article you will see its command line form and also two GUI front ends, with a lot of options, and screen shots
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GigE AMC cards target Carrier Grade Linux apps

11/07/2007  
GE Fanuc has introduced two versions of a Gigabit Ethernet card in the AMC (advanced mezzanine card) form-factor. The Telum GE-QLX and GE-QSX deliver up to four Gigabit Ethernet ports and offer fiber optic transceivers, and support Carrier Grade Linux, according to the company. Designed for AdvancedTCA or MicroTCA platforms, such as GE Fanuc's MP-2000 and MP-3000 MicroTCA platforms, the Telum-series AMC boards are said to boost performance via TCP CRC checksum calculations and segmentation offloading.
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How a timer wheel algorithm can reduce overhead

10/17/2007  
Reduce the overhead of per-tick processing with a timer wheel algorithm that implements the retransmission timer. In this article, learn how to get lower granularity with your retransmission timer by using the AIX TCP fast timer, and discover other advantages of lower timer granularity.
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Networking 2.6.24 Merge Plans

10/04/2007  
"I'm a bit behind after investigating the TCP performance issues that turned out to be HW specific problems. It's a bit of a disappointment, I thought maybe there was a cool bug to fix in TCP :-)" explained David Miller, posting hisnetworking merge plans for the upcoming 2.6.24 kernel. He noted,"I merged in Jeff Garzik's and John Linville's latest and I'm running the current tree on my workstation most of today with good results so far." David added,"I plan to commit my Neptune driver in it's current state, and that's the last new feature going in."
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