In this 1.5 hour instructor-led tutorial, Donald Sharp(FRRouting
maintainer) will start by introducing the FRRouting Suite to the
unitiated.
He will then guide us into a basic network configuration.
In the second half of the tutorial, Donald will delve deeper
into more advanced features on how FRR fits into the classic Data
Centre architecture.
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/session.html?introduction-to-frrouting
cheers,
jamal
PS:- Reminder: Early bird registration offer ends June 1st.
Folks,
Nathan Jay et al assert that there is no one-size-fits-all TCP
congestion control algorithm.
Different apps have different goals for their service lifetimes:
Streaming video apps are sensitive to bandwidth fluctuations,
voice chats desire low latency and bulk transfers only care about
completion time. Varying link characteristics add another dimension
to a congestion control algorithm: hardwired assumptions about the
cause of packet loss or measured latency inflation can lead to
reduced application performance.
PCC-Vivace was created to address these issues.
PCC-Vivace congestion control algorithm provides an explicit
utility function that allows developers to provide weights to
different performance metrics like throughput, latency, packet
loss and jitter. PCC-Vivace's online learning framework also
allows it to adapt to a variety of network conditions,
consistently delivering high performance.
The talk will discuss the challenges of implementing PCC-Vivace
in the Linux kernel. Nathan will present initial results comparing
the performance of Vivace with other existing Linux congestion
controllers(BBR etc). The talk will also demonstrate the
implementation's flexibility by creating and testing a variety of
utility functions.
More info at:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/session.html?a-pcc-vivace-kernel-module-for…
cheers,
jamal
HAProxy is a well known high performance TCP/HTTP load balancer used
as a front end to applications by many very-large sites. Often
HAProxy is stationed at the frontiers of the wild wild ^Wwest
internet in the defense against DDOS - and at the heart of the
storm sits PacketShield. PacketShield is built using NDIV. NDIV
has been deployed very effectively todate and handles the intended
line-rate 10Gbps processing under a variety of hostile real-world
DDOS attacks.
Willy Tarreau and Emeric Brun have been contemplating migrating
NDIV to use XDP. In this talk they will describe what NDIV does
well and what is currently lacking with XDP to make it convincing
to make the jump.
More details:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/session.html?challenges-migrating-from-ndiv…
Reminder: Early bird registration expires on June 1st.
cheers,
jamal
Tushar Dave will share his experiences in implementing Reliable Datagram
Socket (RDS) filtering and firewalling. RDS sits on top of both TCP and
IB, which presents a challenge:
while TCP deals with skbs, IB/RDMA deals with scatterlists. Traditional
firewalling with netfilter deals only with skbs. Tushar is looking for a
unified solution for both TCP and IB.
To this end he is adding/extending eBPF helpers to process messages that
are in the form of struct scatterlist.
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/session.html?using-ebpf-for-rds-filtering
Reminder: Early bird registration expires on June 1st.
cheers,
jamal
Procrastinators, you have been given a lifeline!
The Call For Submissions for Netdev 0x12 has been
extended to Monday, May 20, 2018.
Netdev 0x12 conference has a single blind review.
On how to participate see:
https://netdevconf.org/0x12/submit-proposal.html
cheers,
jamal
Greetings!
We are pleased to announce the opening of registration
for Netdev 0x12.
Netdev 0x12 conference will be held on July 11-13
at the Hyatt Regency, Montreal.
Our main motivation is to bring the community together to
the idea exchange fountain we call Netdev conf.
And in that spirit, as in the past, the registration fee is
Real Cheep.
Cost is:
CDN $320 for early bird registration which expires on June 1st
after which the rate goes up to CDN $400.
50% off if you are a student. Go to:
https://www.onlineregistrations.ca/Netdev0x12/
More details:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/registration.html
And yes - we do accept AMEX (finally!)
If you need financial assistance, note that we do provide
bursaries:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/bursaries.html
If you need a visa to attend, please dont procrastinate
and contact us at:
info(a)netdevconf.org + more info at:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/travel.html
And did we mention how beautiful Montreal in July?
Check: https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/montreal.html
Given there are so many activities at that time of year,
we urge people to book their hotels early. Hotels
information:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/travel.html#nearby
cheers,
jamal