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Networking Troubleshooting

Where the time goes, latency against bandwidth, MTU black holes, keepalives, packet loss, tcpdump and reading a capture, exhausted connections and intermittent failures.

10 lessons · about 88 minutes

What you'll go through

  • 01The request that takes three seconds8 min
  • 02You doubled the bandwidth and nothing improved8 min
  • 03Small requests work and large uploads hang forever9 min
  • 04The connection that was closed and nobody told you8 min
  • 05One percent packet loss and half the throughput9 min
  • 06When you have to see the packets themselves9 min
  • 07Reading a capture without reading every packet9 min
  • 08Cannot assign requested address9 min
  • 09It fails one time in five and nobody can reproduce it9 min
  • 10Post-mortem: the peak that took down a healthy service10 min