Networking topics that interest me

Features and their uses

• Cisco Netflow: [link to cisco.com page] [local copy]
• or Google for "netflow provides detailed view"
• Real world uses and issues for IP multicast
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Packet classification

Performance issues

Packet reordering

• Lloyd Wood's dissertation (local copy of PDF) contains some simulation results on the effect of network packet reordering on TCP throughput, particularly section 3.5 and the summary at the end of section 3.
• A page of Sally Floyd's pointing at other papers measuring occurrences and effects of network reordering, including Michael Laor and Lior Gendel's paper on the effects of reordering on TCP performance
  

Miscellaneous details

• Line rate and transmission times spreadsheet for various packet lengths and link speeds