Networking

10 May 2022

BBR Congestion Control

A modern congestion control algorithm

1 Aug 2021

Hosting a Multiplayer game on a Private IP (SDN example)

Zerotier - using SDN to allow hosting on a private IP

10 Aug 2020

Instrumenting Network Throughput in Linux

sar

18 Dec 2019

Software-Defined Networking

A demonstration of SDN - programmable switches with Mininet and POX

10 Nov 2019

DNS-over-HTTPS

Originally meant as a workaround so ISPs couldn’t track our activity history using DNS packets. A great idea but doesn’t seem to achieve what it set out to do.

1 Oct 2019

Traceroute with TCP

Piecing together the path that our network packets take from source to destination

10 Sep 2019

SMTP Ports and RFC Compliance

The story of unstandardised SMTP ports, and what this story says about the role of RFCs in global tech standardisation

28 Aug 2018

HTTP/2

Given the deluge of web requests made daily, what optimisations can be made to improve the user experience?