Linux Plumbers Conf 2014

One Line Summary

Abstract

Limitations of existing encapsulation protocols (VXLAN and NVGRE) brought up various extensions (GENEVE, GUE, NSH). While SW can accommodate any protocol, HW has been boxed by standards, which in turn forced SW to artificially limit itself. SW and HW will be free to innovate if we can answer questions: Why did packet format matter? Where does it still matter? What kind of HW offload model allows SW to run any network protocol on top?

Speaker

• Alexei Starovoitov

  Biography

  Alexei is a distinguished engineer at PLUMgrid where he works on distributed platform, dataplane, compilers. In Linux kernel his interests are Berkeley Packet Filters and their applicability to tracing and networking. In his free time he enjoys mountain biking and backpacking.

  Sessions

  • * Does network packet format matter?
    • Title: Does network packet format matter?
    • Microconference: Network Virtualization and Security
    • One Line Summary:

      Ideas for solving ever growing needs of networking in the cloud and live discussion

    • Speakers: Alexei Starovoitov
  • * Encrypted VXLAN
    • Title: Encrypted VXLAN
    • Microconference: Network Virtualization and Security
    • One Line Summary:

      ideas for providing per tenant encryption of virtualized networks in the cloud

    • Speakers: Alexei Starovoitov