Coverage of Netconf 2018

Netconf, the Linux kernel networking development conference, has providedcoverage of this year's event, which was held in Boston, MA, May 31-June 1.

Day 1 looks at the following sessions:

• DPDK (Stephen Hemminger)
• BPF, Cilium, and bpfilter (Daniel Borkmann)
• Netflix and BPF; future work on BPF tracing (Brendan Gregg)
• BPF offload; NIC switchdev mode; killing tc egdev (Jakub Kicinski)
• Networking Traffic Control (Cong Wang)
• TCP work (Eric Dumazet)
• Layer 1 boring stuff (Florian Fainelli)

Day 2 covers:

• Being Less Indirect (David S. Miller)
• TC Flower Tunneling (Simon Horman)
• Who Fears the Spectres? (Paolo Abeni)
• TLS, Crypto, and ULP's (Dave Watson)
• TC changes and "ethlink" (Jiri Pirko)
• RX Batching, GRO, Megaflow merging, ARFS, BPF Verifier (Edward Cree)
• SCTP offload and tunnel ICMP handling (Xin Long)
• BPF and the Future of Kernel Extensibility (Alexei Starovoitov)