New Main Features
Updated TCP/IP stack (v4.18)
- Global increased performance with BBR congestion control algorithm
- DNS stub resolver improvements via glibc 2.28
Performance monitoring and network control
- eBPF for networking, tracing, firewalls, and filtering (tech preview in RHEL 8.0)
IPVLAN
- Scalable networking for containers (no MAC address limitation)
Offloads
- Ipsec crypto VPN, TC (tech preview in RHEL 8.0)
NetworkManager 1.14
- Default CLI and API to configure services
- Reduced footprint
- Can’t be deactivated or removed
Firewalld 0.6.3
- Enabled by default
- Nftables backend
- Efficient and better performance
- New tools (iptables-translate) to convert iptables to nftables
DPDK for public cloud
- Enables fast networking on clouds
- Portability on hybrid clouds
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