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Nov 2022
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TCP Protective Load Balancing coming to ...

Hussein Nasser
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Google recent paper on protective load balancing in TCP attempts to improve packet drops and latency by making the host change the flow path using the IPv6 Flow label. The Linux kernels gets the PLB support in Linux 6.2 this December, let us discuss with this is.   

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