linux
RSS linuxRSVP-TE Daemon for DiffServ Over MPLS Under Linux
White Paper The RSVP-TE daemon for DiffServ over MPLS under Linux project supports the important Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards for the set up of MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS, RFC3031) tunnels with DiffServ support (DS, RFC2475) under... [10 Jul 2008]
Firewalls in Linux: Principles and Implementation
White Paper This paper is meant to provide techniques in building and installing a standalone packet filtering firewall in Linux machines, mainly for small sites who don't give much service to Internet users. It deals with attenuating the effect of the most... [10 Jul 2008]
A Failure Predictive and Policy-Based High Availability Strategy for Linux High Performance Computing Cluster
White Paper The Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR) is a fully integrated cluster software stack designed for building, and maintaining a Linux Beowulf cluster. As OSCAR has become a popular tool for building the cost effective HPC cluster... [10 Jul 2008]
An Intrusion Detection System Based in the Gathering of Linux Syslog Logs From Linux, Windows NT and Snort
White Paper There are different layers to assure the security of the computer systems in a company. There is the perimeter defences and gateways like firewalls and routers, the network security with Network Intrusion Detection Systems and host security with... [10 Jul 2008]
Operating System Multilevel Load Balancing
White Paper This paper describes an algorithm that allows Linux to per-form multilevel load balancing in NUMA computers. The Linux scheduler implements a load balancing algorithm that uses structures called sched domains to build a hierarchy that represents... [10 Jul 2008]
Load-Balancing for a Real-Time System Based on Asymmetric Multi-Processing
White Paper ARTiS is a project that aims at enhancing the Linux kernel with better real-time properties. Unfortunately, the original load-balancing mechanism of Linux is not aware of this enhanced design. It allows retaining the flexibility and ease of... [10 Jul 2008]
Virtual Private Networks: An Overview With Performance Evaluation
White Paper This paper studies some of the most popular Open-Source Linux-Based VPN solutions (OSLVs) and compares them with respect to network performance (measured in terms of overhead, bandwidth utilization, and latency/jitter), features and... [10 Jul 2008]
Virtual Private Networks Coping With Complexity
White Paper This paper is going to present some approaches for IP address, user, and access control management that have already been realized for the Linux FreeS/WAN IPsec stack or that are considered for implementation by the ZHW Security Group. [10 Jul 2008]
Optimizing 10-Gigabit Ethernet for Networks of Workstations, Clusters, and Grids: A Case Study
White Paper For local-area, storage-area, and system-area networks in support of networks of workstations, network-attached storage, and clusters, respectively, one can achieve over 7-Gb/s end-to-end throughput and 12- s end-to-end latency between... [10 Jul 2008]
Cluster Load Balancing for Fine-Grain Network Services
White Paper Another contribution is the design and implementation of a load balancing system in a Linux cluster that strikes a balance between acquiring enough load information and minimizing system overhead. This paper studies cluster load balancing policies... [10 Jul 2008]
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Double Daily Trades and Halve Hardware Costs
White Paper That is exactly what's happened since the CME initiated its migration from legacy Sun Solaris UNIX systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in early 2004. The CME chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux over rival Linux offerings because of Red Hat's proven... [09 Jul 2008]
A Personal Firewall for Linux
White Paper This paper constitutes the investigation and development of a user-friendly tool for firewall-configuration and -management, based on the netfilter/iptables-firewall-code residing in current Linux-kernels. [09 Jul 2008]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Application Compatibility
White Paper The Red Hat Enterprise Linux product family provides a powerful, stable platform for third-party software application developers. This paper describes the different types of compatibility guarantees that are available to application developers... [09 Jul 2008]
QuickHelp 2.0: Help Authoring for Windows, Macintosh & Linux
White Paper QuickHelp 2.0 adds configurable actions, tables, parameters, default options, precompiled indexes and other performance enhancements making it 2 to 3 times faster than previous versions. Configurable actions include running an executable... [09 Jul 2008]
Optimal Communication Performance on Fast Ethernet With GAMMA
White Paper The current prototype of the Genoa Active Message MA- chine (GAMMA) is a low-overhead, Active Messages-based inter-process communication layer implemented mainly at kernel level in the Linux Operating System. [09 Jul 2008]
