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jitter
some of the new functionality to be found in the 2.6 Linux kernel networking wise :


The bridging firewall code was merged. To manage these you'll
need the ebtables :

A firewalling tool to transparantly filter network traffic passing a bridge. The filtering possibilities are limited to link layer filtering and some basic filtering on higher network layers

IPSec supported in mainline finally .
http://www.ipsec-howto.org
no need to bsd now ;)


IPVS (IP Virtual Server)
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/
The Linux Virtual Server is a highly scalable and highly available server built on a cluster of real servers, with the load balancer running on the Linux operating system. The architecture of the cluster is transparent to end users. End users only see a single virtual server


RFC 2960 - SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)
SCTP is an IP based, message oriented reliable transport protocol with
congestion control, support for transparent multi-homing and multiple
ordered streams of messages. RFC2960 defines the core protocol.

angoranimi
don't forget CIFS, and the new underlying CryptoAPI which was implemented to properly handle IPSec.