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Critical Server Needs and the Linux Kernel

Oct 22, 2004  By Ibrahim Haddad
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A discussion of four of the kernel features needed for mission-critical server environments, including telecom.
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Many challenges accompany the migration from proprietary to open platforms. One of the main challenge remains to be the availability of various kernel features and mechanisms needed for telecom platforms and integrating these features into the Linux kernel.

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Transparent IPC

Make Clustering Easy with TIPC

Distributed Security Infrastructure

"Stop Malicious Code Execution at Kernel Level", LinuxWorld Magazine, January 2004

Asynchronous Event Mechanism

"An Event Mechanism for Linux", Linux Journal, July 2003

Open System Lab

IETF ForCES Working Group

Linux Virtual Routing and Forwarding Project

Tripwire

bsign

GnuPG

DigSig Announcement on LKML

AEM Announcement on LKML

Ibrahim Haddad works for the Ericsson Research branch in Montreal, Canada. He also serves as contributing editor to Linux Journal. Ibrahim co-authored with Richard Peterson Red Hat Linux Pocket Administrator and Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora Edition: The Complete Reference (DVD Edition), both published by McGraw-Hill/Osborne. He currently is a Dr. Sc. Candidate at Concordia University.

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Re: Critical Server Needs and the Linux Kernel

OscarHinostroza's picture
Submitted by OscarHinostroza (not verified) on Thu, 10/28/2004 - 02:00.

The next generation Linux Server Based Telecom

Tank you Ibrahim Haddad

Re: Critical Server Needs and the Linux Kernel

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Submitted by smurfix (not verified) on Fri, 10/22/2004 - 02:00.

Multi-FIB is already possible, in that you can mimic most of its effects with iptables; the kernel has supported multiple routing tables for some time now.

However, I do question the idea of doing this in the first place. This use case can only arise when two separate customers insist on using overlapping RFC-internal IPv4 address spaces for their servers and you need to put both of them onto one host. Better solutions to this problem exist (remap in the external load balancer, use IPv6, use virtual servers, use separate physical servers, ...).

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