Court Hearing on Sitecom's appeal to the preliminary injunction

The court hearing is scheduled on Wednesday, 19 May 2004, at 11:25am, Room Number 501, Landgericht Muenchen I, Muenchen, Germany.

As of now I am not sure if I'll be able to attend. This is the last day of a three day conference I'm attending. I also don't expect the hearing to be very exciting, since no discussion about technical issues or about the GPL will take place.

Switches that claim to do VLAN but don't

Recently I discovered the Allnet ALL0478A 8 port gigabit ethernet switch, that apparently has support for configuration via serial console, trunking, mirroring and VLAN. At least that's what the specification claims.

Nice idea, I thought this would be ideal to save some more PCI slots in my server (why do computers always have such a little number of PCI slots?). I could just connect one [or two trunked] interfaces from the switch to the server, and then connect DSL modem, various internal LAN segments and the WLAN AP to other ports at the switch. The linux server would then provide different network devices for every VLAN tag I use

Nice thought, but it doesn't work. Apparently they advertise something like 'switch segmentation' as VLAN. However, this kind of fake VLAN has no relation with 802.1Q VLAN - and thus cannot send you packets including a VLAN header :(

Interview about the netfilter/Sitecom GPL case

Orangecrate.com has published an Interview about the current state of the netfilter project / Sitecom case.

The same interview is also covered at this newsforge article.