Linux Kernel Developers' Netconf

The first rule of Netconf is: You do not talk about Netconf. The second rule of Netconf is: You do not talk about Netconf.

Netconf is a Linux community conference, by-invitation-only, running since 2004. The agenda has a clear focus on kernel level networking. Attendees are the main maintainers and developers of the Linux networking subsystem.

Due to the distributed nature of the Network subsystem development, contributors to the stack are located in different corners of the globe and coordinate security and bug fixes as well as maintanance and new features via email.

Netconf is intended to be a face to face working meetup to compliment those email exchanges. Problematic unresolved issues are hashed out and bold new ideas are discussed.

Netconf 2024 (Vienna, before LPC)

• Location: Vienna, Austria
• Date: 16 - 17 September 2024
• Committee:

  David S. Miller

  Eric Dumazet

  Jakub Kicinski

  Paolo Abeni

• Topics:

  Name	Topic
  Jakub Kicinski	NIPA - CI, HW testing, drivers
  Matthieu Baerts	Netdev CI and NIPA
  Willem de Bruijn	Testing and scaling
  Kuniyuki Iwashima	Per Netns RTNL
  Jason Xing	Extending SO_TIMESTAMPING feature
  Eric Dumazet	UDP, TCP, bugs
  Ido Schimmel	DSCP matching, IPMR extension, XDP metadata for telemetry
  Sabrina Dubroca	MACsec offload, semi-automated validation for uAPI patches
  Daniel Borkmann	Overlapping TProxy with non-local bind + Wireguard + BIG TCP
  John Fastabend	DPU use cases for Cilium, proposed programming API
  Alexander Lobakin	netdev priv, stats, features vs flags, GRO refactor
  Paolo Abeni	Dealing with double/nested UDP tunnel

Notes from the discussions.