Texts

Recommended Textbooks

Lower Layers

• 18. Rosen, “Linux Kernel Networking: Implementation and Theory”, Apress, 2013, ISBN 978-1430261964

• 3. Benvenuti, “Understanding Linux Network Internals”, O’Reilly, 2006, ISBN 978-0596002558

General

• Fred Halsall, “Computer Networking and the Internet”, Fifth Edition, Addison-Wesley, Pearson Education, 2005, ISBN 0-321-26358-8

• Fred Halsall, “Data Communications, Computer Networks and Open Systems”, Fourth Edition, Addison-Wesley, Pearson Education, 1996, ISBN 0-201-42293-X

• Andrew S. Tanenbaum, “Computer Networks”, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall, Pearson Education, 2003, ISBN 0-13-038488-7

Background Reading

• Blog entry: linux networking stack from the ground up

• https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/linux-networking-stack-from-the-ground-up-part-1/

• Blog entry: Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Receiving Data

• https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/06/22/monitoring-tuning-linux-networking-stack-receiving-data/

• Blog entry: Understanding TCP/IP Network Stack & Writing Network Apps

• https://www.cubrid.org/blog/3826497

• Article: Dan Siemon 2013, Queueing in the Linux Network Stack

• https://www.coverfire.com/articles/queueing-in-the-linux-network-stack/

• Article: Arnout VandecappelleKernel Flow, The Linux Foundation

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/kernel_flow

• Slide Show: Thomas GrafKernel Networking Walkthrough, Red Hat

• http://www.slideshare.net/ThomasGraf5/devconf-2014-kernel-networking-walkthrough