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Someone need to come up with a new reference book on Linux routing. The last reliable book on the topic is about 20 years ago during Linux kernel 2.X, the time
by teleforce 4y ago
Someone need to come up with a new reference book on Linux routing. The last reliable book on the topic is about 20 years ago during Linux kernel 2.X, the time when the Linux kernel has a dedicate routing table as mentioned in the article. Now it is even more important due to the popularity of Linux networking in the era of cloud, edge and container.
[1] Book Review: Linux Routers - A Primer for Network Administrators, 2nd Ed
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6314 https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6314
- CameronNemo 4y agoVincent Bernat has one of my favorite blogs about networking. https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog#tag-linux https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog#tag-linux
- znpy 4y agoI came to say pretty much this. It's high time for somebody to write a guide to linux networking. The closest thing to a comprehensive guide is the Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO (https://lartc.org https://lartc.org) but the last update (as far as I can tell from the website) is from 2012.
- the_biot 4y agoI'm not so sure people buy books like that anymore, not at the volume they did 20 years ago. When was the last time you bought an O'Reilly? I used to buy several of these a year, but can't remember the last time I even saw one. You're right that a new, easy to read guide is needed, but I think it would have to be just a website. The tools you need for Linux networking, mostly ip and tc, are as crude-but-powerful as they were 20 years ago, but now have much more functionality and complexity. Things are actively getting worse: a tool like brctl (bridge control) was obsoleted for the same functionality in iproute2 -- but brctl was much more intuitive to use. Some nicer frontends than iproute2 would really help here.