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Linux based systems are known for performance and realiability in the area of networking. This presentation will give a tour through the Linux 2.6 kernel network stack, it\'s structure and implementation. Some of the topics covered
are: Network hardware drivers, core network functions, IPv4 protocol stack,
destination cache, neighbour cache, sockets implementation, zero-copy TCP.