Conntrack tales - one thousand and one flows
April 06, 2020 12:00PM
Conntrack
Linux
Network
TCP
We were wondering - can we just enable Linux "conntrack"? How does it actually work? I volunteered to help the team understand the dark corners of the Linux's "conntrack" stateful firewall subsystem....
A cost-effective and extensible testbed for transport protocol development
January 14, 2020 4:07PM
HTTP3
QUIC
TLS 1.3
TCP
At Cloudflare, we develop protocols at multiple layers of the network stack. In the past, we focused on HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and TLS 1.3. Now, we are working on QUIC and HTTP/3, which are still in IETF draft, but gaining a lot of interest....
Accelerating UDP packet transmission for QUIC
January 08, 2020 5:08PM
QUIC
UDP
TCP
HTTP3
Significant work has gone into optimizing TCP, UDP hasn't received as much attention, putting QUIC at a disadvantage. Let's explore a few tricks that help mitigate this....
When TCP sockets refuse to die
September 20, 2019 4:53PM
SYN
TCP
Spectrum
Tech Talks
We noticed something weird - the TCP sockets which we thought should have been closed - were lingering around. We realized we don't really understand when TCP sockets are supposed to time out! We naively thought enabling TCP keepalives would be enough... but it isn't!...