of packet processing is the history of the Internet and packet switching. Packet processing milestones include: 1962–1968: Early research into packet switching...
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or routers. Vector processing is the process of processing multiple packets at a time, with low latency. Single packet processing and high latency are...
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controller polling-mode drivers for offloading TCP packet processing from the operating system kernel to processes running in user space. This offloading achieves...
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Localhost (section Packet processing)
in 2006. The processing of any packet sent to a loopback address, is implemented in the link layer of the TCP/IP stack. Such packets are never passed...
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packet data. Network processors have specific features or architectures that are provided to enhance and optimise packet processing within these networks...
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IPv6 (section IPv6 packet fragmentation)
network packets. IPv6 specifies a new packet format, designed to minimize packet header processing by routers. Because the headers of IPv4 packets and IPv6...
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In a network based on packet switching, processing delay is the time it takes routers to process the packet header. Processing delay is a key component...
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PFCP (redirect from Packet Forwarding Control Protocol (PFCP))
the Control-Plane to manage packet processing and forwarding performed by a User-Plane component. Typical EPC or 5G Packet Gateways are split by the protocol...
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A packet analyzer (also packet sniffer or network analyzer) is a computer program or computer hardware such as a packet capture appliance that can analyze...
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decide the fate of the packet. The hook is placed in the network interface controller (NIC) driver just after the interrupt processing, and before any memory...
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rules for the treatment of packets. Each table is associated with a different kind of packet processing. Packets are processed by sequentially traversing...
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Maximum transmission unit (category Packets (information technology))
A larger MTU also requires processing of fewer packets for the same amount of data. In some systems, per-packet-processing can be a critical performance...
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design of parallel datapath packet processing because there was a very quick adoption of these multiple-core processors for the datapath and the control...
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and computer networking, a network packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-switched network. A packet consists of control information and...
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performance: Data link layer processing and extracting the packet Decoding the packet header Looking up the destination address in the packet header Analyzing other...
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System Packet Interface (SPI) family of Interoperability Agreements from the Optical Internetworking Forum specify chip-to-chip, channelized, packet interfaces...
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Packet over SONET/SDH, abbreviated POS, is a communications protocol for transmitting packets in the form of the Point to Point Protocol (PPP) over SDH...
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System Architecture Evolution (redirect from Evolved Packet Core)
plane traffic. The main component of the SAE architecture is the Evolved Packet Core (EPC), also known as SAE Core. The EPC will serve as the equivalent...
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such as the operating system kernel. It is the successor to the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF, with the "e" originally meaning "extended") filtering mechanism...
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Packet injection (also known as forging packets or spoofing packets) in computer networking, is the process of interfering with an established network...
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performance of packet processing. In these implementations, the networking stack is split into two layers and the lower layer processes the majority of...
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Forward error correction (FEC) on OTN signals Packet processing in conjunction with mapping/de-mapping of packet into and out of OTN signals The OTN signals...
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Traffic flow (computer networking) (redirect from Packet flow)
following components: Processing delay (the time taken to process a packet in a network node) Queuing delay (the time a packet waits in a queue until...
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recent versions are based on Ubuntu Linux) that incorporates Vector Packet Processing, Data Plane Development Kit, FRRouting, and Clixon technologies. VyOS...
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Network throughput (redirect from Packet per second)
rate of message delivery over a communication channel, such as Ethernet or packet radio, in a communication network. The data that these messages contain...
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Transmission Control Protocol (redirect from SYN Packets)
sending a small packet so that the receiver responds by sending another acknowledgment containing the new window size. If a receiver is processing incoming data...
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Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF; also BSD Packet Filter, classic BPF or cBPF) is a network tap and packet filter which permits computer network packets to be...
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Chandranmenon, Girish P.; Varghese, George (October 1995), "Trading Packet Headers for Packet Processing", ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 25 (4): 162–173...
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An IPv6 packet is the smallest message entity exchanged using Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Packets consist of control information for addressing...
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site-to-site WireGuard connections from version 7.50 onwards. Vector Packet Processing user space implementation written in C. Early snapshots of the code...
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