Tasty » Adam Sampson's networking bookmarks

The USE Method edit / delete

"For every resource, check utilization, saturation, and errors."

to ag0803 analysis benchmarking debugging networking performance ... on 24 August 2014

Cap'n Proto: Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, and SBE edit / delete

Overview of a bunch of modern serialisation protocols. Worth bearing in mind for future CPA-networking-ish projects.

to networking protocol serialisation ... on 26 July 2014

QuickTun - Qontrol.nl Wiki edit / delete

Interface-level tunnelling using NaCl for security.

to crypto ip nacl networking tunnel ... on 22 July 2014

kryo.se: iodine (IP-over-DNS, IPv4 over DNS tunnel) edit / delete

"iodine lets you tunnel IPv4 data through a DNS server."

to dns ip networking to-package tunnel ... on 22 July 2014

Beej's Guide to Network Programming edit / delete

This is on the reading list for AG0907. It's a pretty good overview, although students will probably find it a bit Unix-centric; you may do better to start off with a higher-level library like SFML or Boost.Network.

to ag0907 networking ... on 28 April 2014

netem | The Linux Foundation edit / delete

How to simulate network problems (e.g. packet loss or delay) using the Linux network stack.

to ag0907 networking packet-loss testing ... on 28 April 2014

MinimaLT edit / delete

This appears to be the successor of CurveCP, related to the Ethos OS project.

to crypto djb networking protocols tcp ... on 26 March 2014

microHOWTO: IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tutorial edit / delete

Good overview of VLAN configuration.

to 802.1q ethernet networking vlan ... on 12 February 2014

Moserware: The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection edit / delete

Nice overview of what exactly is going on when establishing a TLS connection, with packet dumps and brief explanations of the maths.

to ag0803 crypto dump networking packet ssl tls ... on 17 December 2013

A Culture of Innovation: Insider Accounts of Computing and Life at BBN edit / delete

Book about the history of BBN. But the really interesting thing here is the source code for the IMP -- the original ARPAnet router -- and details about recovering it and running it in emulation. Very neat!

to arpanet bbn history imp internet networking retrocomputing ... on 13 December 2013