Tootfinder

Weekend Reads
* How Quake got its TCP/IP stack
https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_chunnel/index.html
* MENOG 25 region advancement report

Such a wonderful time in tech history:
▫️Certifications on Windows 3.1/95/NT
▫️PC TCP/IP & 10bT Ethernet
▫️Scouring Fry's Electronics & Computer swap meets
▫️SNA Gateways for 3270/5250
▫️OMG CDROM! 😜
▶️ The Computer Chronicles - Windows 95 (1994)
https://youtube.com…

'iptraf-ng' is a TUI network monitor; it's a really easy way of watching bandwidth on each of your interfaces, and has modes to split between say IPv4/IPv6/TCP/etc, or packet size; and shows you all the IP connections currently transferrign thing, or all the ethernet devices currently doing stuff.
https://github.com…

Famien Sanglard does a deep dive on how Quake was the only game to support both DOS and Windows 95 with TCP/IP multiplayer in one exe #Quake…

apparently the TCP/IP stack that i designed is used in seL4! in the microkit library, specifically (sel4-async-network)

TIL: AirPlay stopped working on macOs Tahoe.
Solution: System Settings > Wifi > click "details" next to your wifi network > select TCP/IP tab. Change "Configure IPv6" setting from Off to "Link-Local Only".
🤷‍♂️ No effing idea why.

Joyride: Rethinking Linux's network stack design for better performance, security, and reliability
Yanlin Du, Ruslan Nikolaev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25015 https://

Joyride: Rethinking Linux's network stack design for better performance, security, and reliability
Contemporary distributed computing workloads, including scientific computation, data mining, and machine learning, increasingly demand OS networking with minimal latency as well as high throughput, security, and reliability. However, Linux's conventional TCP/IP stack becomes increasingly problematic for high-end NICs, particularly those operating at 100 Gbps and beyond. These limitations come mainly from overheads associated with kernel space processing, mode switching, and data copying in th…