Systems Talk

Linux networking, one packet at a time

Name: Linux networking, one packet at a time
Start: 2027-05-21T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2027-05-21T15:45:00+02:00
Location: Main Hall, The Foundry Hall

Follow a single packet from a socket write to the wire and back, stopping at every queue, hook and offload along the way. Oskar uses tracing tools live, and a bug that took a week to find.

For people who like to see what the kernel is doing.

Linux
Networking

Speaker

Oskar Lindqvist

Site Reliability Engineer, Tessel Works

Oskar debugs networks for a living and makes tools that show what the kernel is doing. He keeps a notebook of the strangest packet captures he has seen.