NETWORKING RESOURCES

IP Forwarding and Packet Classification Algorithms

• Stefan Nilssons page on IP forwarding using LC-tries
• Pankaj Gupta's homepage contains information on forwarding and packet classification algorithms
• Patricia trees
• Route lookup and packet classification course slides
• Cisco's Parallel eXpress forwarding
• Cisco's How to choose the best router switching path

Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

• List of IPv6 RFCs and Internet drafts
• Tahi IPv6 test specification
• UNH IPv6 test suites
• IPv6 at takeoff speed
• Cisco's IPv6 solutions
• IPv6 Tutorial by Ross Callon
• Steve Deering's IPv6 Masterclass
• Cisco's ABCs of IPv6
• IPv6 from a thousand feet
• Implementing AF-independent Applications
• Porting IPv6 Applications How-To
• NetBSD's IPv6 networking FAQ
• NA IPv6 Task Force
• Programming guidelines on transition to IPv6
• IPv6 packet forwarding algorithms

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

• Interdomain Routing (IDR) WG
• IDR WG mailing list archives
• Cisco's BGP Case Studies
• Cisco's BGP Technical Tips
• Cisco's BGP Commands
• Juniper's Tech Documents (See document on Routing and Routing Protocols)
• Endless BGP convergence problem
• Things to do when running any protocol over tunnels
• P. Ferguson, Introduction to the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Nanog Presentation, February 1997.
• D. Golding, M. Dimayuga, Crafting Confederations: An Overview of the Confederation POP Approach to Network Architecture. [ppt]
• Network Magazine article on BGP scaling with the Juniper M40
• C. Labovitz, A. Ahuja, A. Bose, F. Jahanian, "Delayed Internet Routing Convergence", Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2000.
• H. Berkowitz, Exterior Routing 201, NANOG 21 presentation, Feb 2001.
• RIPE Routing Working Group Recommedations on Route-flap Damping.

LAN/MAN Technologies

• Ethernet frame formats
• Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2006 whitepaper on interoperability
• A spanning tree primer
• RSTP simulator (in MS Visio)

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

• SACK questions on Sally Floyd's page
• TCP testing wiki @ NCSU

Random Early Detect (RED)

• Sally Floyd's page on RED
• RED for dummies
• G. Iannaccone, M. May, C. Diot, Aggegate traffic performance with active queue management and drop from tail ACM Computer Communication Review, 31(3), Jul 2001.

QoS

• H. Zhang, Service disciplines for guaranteed service in packet switching networks.

Router Design

• V. P. Kumar, T. V. Lakshman, D. Stiliadis, Beyond best effort: Router architectures for the differentiated services of tomorrow's Internet.
• T. V. Lakshman, D. Stiliadis, High-speed policy-based packet forwarding using efficient multi-dimensional range matching.
• S. Keshav, R. Sharma, Issues and trends in router design. IEEE Communications Magazine, May 1998.
• S. Karlin, L. Peterson, VERA: An extensible router architecture, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming (OPENARCH'01), Anchorage, Alaska, April 27-28, 2001.
• T. Spalink, S. Karlin, L. Peterson, Y. Gottlieb, Building a robust software-based router using network processors, Proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'01), pp. 216-229, Chateau Lake Louise, Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 2001.
• C. Alaettinoglu, V. Jacobson, H. Yu, Toward millisecond IGP convergence, NANOG Presentation, October 2000.
• F. Kuhns et al., Design of a high performance dynamically extensible router, DANCE 02.

Congestion control

• Dah Ming Chiu's publications
• Raj Jain's publications

General Tutorials

• RAD University - tutorials on networking.
• Cisco's Internetworking Technology Overview
• Protocol overhead when transporting frames over Ethernet or ATM
• The Xbone -- A system for automatic overlay network deployment
• Hojmark.net has tons of links to tutorials
• Guide to SNMP programming
• Network security basics - attack methods
• HP's networking docs

Security

• Interop iLabs NAC resources

Testing resources

• Bridge conformance testing at UNH
• Routing test suite at UNH
• Agilent's router tester journal
• Ixia's library of test plans
• Net O2's ATTEST
• Yersinia - a tool for security testing
• Spirent

Online books

• Policy Routing with Linux - Online Edition by Matthew G. Marsh

Reference Desk

• Ethernet Numbers @ IANA (Ethertypes, OUIs, Ethernet Multicast Addrresses)
• Listing of Ethertypes @ IEEE (More up to date and detailed listing of Ethertypes)
• A listing of well-known multicast IP addresses
• Watersprings - Links to Internet drafts and RFCs
• Best Current Practice (BCP) RFCs

Open source development

• etables is a filtering tool for a bridging firewall.

Workshops and conferences

• Hotnets (all proceedings are online)