packet
3 stories and discussions about packet, aggregated from every source we track.
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I rented a $6 server, gave it a fresh IPv4 address nobody had used before, and started a...
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Docker couldn't show me whether a post-quantum TLS handshake really splits across two TCP segments, same-host GSO hides it. Testing over a real external network wasn't enough either, until I found and disabled GRO, a default on basically any Linux cloud VM.
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This post summarizes our netkit paper from the eBPF’26 workshop at ACM SOSP. The netkit paper proposes an eBPF-based datapath to specialize the Linux networking stack and eliminate redundant backlog queue traversals…