You are here: silicon.com > Resources > White Papers > Networking and Communications > Network Technologies > TCP - IP

TCP - IP White Papers

A Taxonomy of the Linux Network Stack

Tags:
tcp - ip

Overview This paper tries to give readers not familiar with the Linux network stack a gentle introduction to the fundamental concepts, data types and functions. The goal is not so much a complete reference of network stack functions. That is a rather futile exercise, given the pace of change in the kernel. The only authoritative source on this kind of information is, well, the kernel source:-)[FIXME: Online Reference for linuxdoc-generated xref of network stack?> Rather, the focus of this paper should be to help people find the way around the network stack if they want to debug a problem, or to get them started when they want to write a network protocol, or a network device driver.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Oracle	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	TCP - IP, Linux - Open Source

Did you find this white paper useful? 13 out of 41 users found this white paper useful

Cash In Your PBX -- Upgrade with Cisco. Gain significant new savings now

PBX systems and old telephony applications were just not built for today's business needs. They don't scale easily, struggle to support mobility, and are increasingly expensive to maintain. Now you...

Publisher:
Cisco Systems

IOS Tips and Tricks

There are a number of things you can do with Cisco's IOS to make your life easier. This white paper presents some ways that IOS commands can help streamline your...

Publisher:
Global Knowledge

Tags:
tcp - ip

Dell-Customized Mobility Solutions

The marketplace is overflowing with a multitude of mobility options for businesses of all types and sizes. From notebooks, netbooks, and handheld computers to WiFi, smartphones, and mobile broadband, there...

Publisher:
Dell

Tags:
lan - wan standards

Interactive Guide: Enterprise Mobility

Getting Started With Enterprise Mobility: A Guide to Sybase's Enterprise Mobility Platform. With the broadest portfolio of industry-leading products, an innovative mobility platform that provides a foundation for future growth,...

Publisher:
Sybase

Tags:
wireless lan

Webcast & Video: Special Report on MEAP featuring research from Gartner

Complimentary Webcast: Taking a Strategic Approach to Enterprise Mobility. Whether you're just getting started with mobility or have already rolled out multiple applications, taking a strategic approach to mobility is...

Publisher:
Sybase

Tags:
wireless lan

Bluetooth - the conspiracy over interoperability

However, what makes Bluetooth useful is the software stack - the profiles on top of the core protocol. Frost and Sullivan's Wall commented: "There is potential for huge variance between protocol stacks and hence massive room for operability issues.

Channel:
Comment & Analysis

Convergence: IPv6 migration - a necessary pain?

The three key means of managing forward and backward compatibility - dual protocol stack, tunneling and translation - can cause a headache for network management in terms of operation costs, staff training and troubleshooting.

Cisco flags flaws in VoIP and router software

A feature called the Stack Group Bidding Protocol in certain versions of IOS is vulnerable to a remotely exploitable denial of service condition, according to a company advisory. Devices that do not support or have not enabled the SGBP protocol are...

Channel:
Security Strategy
Tags:
flaw,
voip,
cisco

Virgin Vista 'will be less stable than XP' - Symantec

This may provide for a more stable networking stack in the long term but stability will suffer in the short term. A networking stack is a complex piece of software that takes many years to mature. Oliver Friedrichs, director of emerging...

Symantec probes Vista's defences

Earlier Symantec reports on the Vista kernel looked at the networking stack and user account control features of Vista. Vista includes several barriers designed to prevent malicious code from gaining access to the operating system core or kernel.

Will virtualisation usher in 'bring your iPhone to work' day?

Within that you will have the corporate security stack and applications but it will be completely isolated and sandboxed. Clive Longbottom, service director for business processes facilitation at analyst house Quocirca, said that both VMware, with...

Featured White Papers

Harnessing the Power of Location Intelligence in the Public Sector

Throughout the world, public services today are under pressure. The current economic climate, where taxreceipts are naturally suppressed, provides very seriousfunding challenges. Moreover, in good times and bad, increasing regulation at the regional and national level is imposing additional duties and responsibilities on the public services without additional resources to carry them out. Store closures are changing the urban landscape. Demographic and/or economic change isincreasing demand for health and social services.Demand for decreased crime rates is focusing minds in law enforcement. And the threat of internationalterrorism is forcing greater contingency duties on the emergency services. The net result is a need to do more with lessquite a challenge.

Publisher:
Pitney Bowes

Buyers' Guide - How to ease the shift to mobile working

With momentum building behind mobile working, are higher costs inevitable when moving staff to laptops? Not necessarily. In fact it's possible to emerge with lower management overheads - and tighter security. Read on to find out more.

Publisher:
Intel

IBM Virtualization Services

Virtualization is a powerful technology and can have profound effects on the datacenter; however, it should be viewed as a component of an overall IT strategy that will be able to support the enterprise's needs. IDC recommends that enterprises look at theentire architecture and determine how to best deploy virtualization