1) Alex Aring asks if you are paying attention to socket ECONNRESET. Big consequences if you are trying to be reliable as Alex et al recently found with the kernel Distributed Lock Manager (DLM) protocol. In this talk he will make suggestions on changes that make this less painful.

More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x15/session.html?ECONNRESET-on-a-reliable-socket-an...

2) sFlow is an established industry standard for real-time network monitoring which has seen wide adoption in switching ASICs. In this talk Peter Phaal, Neil McKee, Ido Schimmel, Roopa Prabhu, and Andy Roulin will delve into how sFlow can be used to monitor a data center components ranging from switches to VMs. They will discuss sFlow data formats and their recent extensions.

More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x15/session.html?Network-wide-visibility-with-Linux...

3)Simon Horman will discuss the new enhancements to the TC police action to add packet based control. He will describe how the feature gets offloaded and how it gets to have its own lifecycle independent of the classifier.

More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x15/session.html?Recent-Enhancements-to-the-TC-Poli...

4) New feature testing or bug reproduction can be cumbersome as one embarks on creating network environment scripts - defining network namespaces, setting up different network interfaces types, assigning addresses, configuring routes, vrfs, etc.. All this is tedious and error prone and often frustrating. Eyal Birger introduces netpen.io to will save your valuable time ane energy.

More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x15/session.html?netpen.io-visual-editor-for-networ...

cheers, jamal