Preface
This book takes you on a guided, in-depth tour of the current Linux kernel networking implementation and the theory behind it. For almost a decade, no new book about Linux networking has been written. A decade of dynamic and fast-paced Linux kernel development is quite a long time. There are important kernel networking subsystems that are not described in any other book; for example, IPv6, IPsec, Wireless (IEEE 802.11), IEEE 802.15.4, NFC, InfiniBand, and more. There is also very little information on the Web about the implementation details of these subsystems. For all these reasons, I have written this book.
About ten years ago I made my first steps in kernel programming. I was a developer in a startup taking part in a VoIP project ...
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