This is for folks intending to attend the IPSec tutorial:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/session.html?ipsecike-tutoriallab
The hands-on involves student participation.
If you are going be running some non-linux OS on your laptop
for the Linux IPsec tutorial, please make sure to download and
install virtualbox:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Then please download the netdev-centos-devel.ova from
https://www.files.netdevconf.org/d/2ee3635c9d4448e3b8b9/
and bring up the virtual machine in virtualbox by following
the menu pointers to do
File -> Import Appliance
point it at the downloaded netdev-centos-devel.ova and go
through the steps to import appliance.
Paul Wouters(on Cc) will soon send out additional instructions to make
sure you have the latest libreswan rpms..
(If you run linux natively on the laptop, the extra indirection
through virtualbox is redundant of course!)
- login/passwd = netdev0x12/netdev0x12
- set up network as "Bridged Adapter" and over wireless network
(assuming everyone is doing this on their laptop connected over
conference wireless)
cheers,
jamal
We now have a wiki at:
https://netdevconf.org/wiki/doku.php?id=0x12:start
Currently information on parking, coffee, and the IPSec
tutorial material. We will be adding more.
Please feel free to add an account and share.
cheers,
jamal
Folks,
The conference is about two weeks away.
If you have been procrastinating - now is the time
to register.
As you can see we have amazing talks, working sessions
and tutorials. We have a legend giving a keynote.
Thanks to the Program Committee. Check:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/schedule.html
We wish we didnt have the parallel tracks on day 1 because
if you are like me, I am sure you will want to attend all
the sessions. Perhaps we should not have reopened the CFS.
Alas. Lessons learnt.
The "Bits, Nibbles, Bytes and Words" event is expected
to be a great human-networking event amongst geeks:
whether you want to chit-chat with like minded people
in a social environment, see what our sponsors are up to
or just looking for job opportunities, come and mingle in
a comfortable environment.
Apart from the talks - Montreal is amazing. We are going
to continue updating you with what you could do in
Montreal but for starters do look at:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/montreal.html
To the locals in Montreal:
If we are missing anything you think is exciting
to see - ping us at info(a)netdevconf.org
We are also in the process of setting up a wiki
where we will add a lot more info..
Before i forget, to register goto:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/registration.html
cheers,
jamal
Ok, sorry - that was a lame subject line but hopefully
caught your attention;->
We are looking for volunteers to help us capture
the sessions at the 0x12 conference. The end goal is
to make the larger community aware of these
discussions.
The reports will be sent to Linux Weekly News(lwn).
Pick one or two talks that you are interested
in; to ease thing for you we will ask the speakers to
be accessible to you and if it would help give you early
access to slides and papers.
For a sample space of what we did in 2.2 look at:
https://lwn.net/Articles/738759/
and:
https://lwn.net/Articles/738895/
cheers,
jamal
The schedule has been posted!
We have a new format:
Day 1 is a working day! Only workshops, tutorials and BoFs.
Day 2 and 3 are keynote and talks.
Unfortunately we were unable to keep day 1 to a single
track. We hope people would appreciate the effort put into
getting days 2 and 3 - which are talk days to a single track!
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/schedule.html
cheers,
jamal
The program committee has accepted a BoF session.
Cellular networks exhibit significant variations in
bottleneck link rates even over short time durations.
AQM techniques like fq-codel with ECN feedback are
insufficient.
It is challenging to properly evaluate congestion
control approaches over cellular network paths; it
gets difficult when it involves in-network mechanisms,
since it is not easy to deploy a test network running
new network-layer mechanisms in such setups.
Hari Balakrishnan et al will lead a BoF discussion
to help formalize the constraints of the problem and
formulate ways in which the community should evaluate
congestion control protocols for cellular networks.
This BOF will put forward an evaluation technique involving
collection of real-world cellular network traces and
then replaying them on Linux based infrastructure.
The Mahimahi toolset facilitates such a setup utilizing
Linux containers.
This approach allows for experimenting and validating
newly coded algorithms on Linux in an accurate environment.
To kick things off in this BoF and frame future discussions,
Hari et will illustrate how to use collected traces and
evaluate the Accel-Brake Control (ABC) approach using the
Mahimahi toolset.
More info at:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/session.html?congestion-control-for-cellula…
cheers,
jamal