Vodafone reacts to my notice about some broken WLAN

It's amazing! A person who claimed to be the Chief Designer of Vodafone's Global WLAN services has read my blog and stumbled accross my previous blog entry about the network problems at Linuxtag and sent a quite thorough email in response. And no, this was not in response to my proclaimed cancellation of credit card charge (which I obviously forgot, so it never happened).

Anyway, I'm amazed.

Netfilter workshop dates

Pablo is working on workshop.netfilter.org. But at least the dates are fixed now:

• Oct 4th: some unofficial user-related event with the local lug
• Oct 5th-6th: The workshop itself. discussions, presentations.
• Oct 7th-9th: Hacking on code.

Expect more news soon...

I'll be in Bangalore again :)

Well, according to the organizers it's just a formality, but "just for the record", I've now officially been invited to the-conference-formerly-known-as-Linux-Bangalore. It will happen Nov 29 to Dec 02, but due to timing overlap, I'll probably only be there from the 30th onwards.

I've already tried to raise awareness for this fabulous event with almost everybody I met during my vivid conference travel. Let's hope I have managed to convince a number of high-quality Linux hackers to consider submitting a paper (and let's hope the CfP will be published really soon now).

Update on the netfilter work

Ok, we've seen a terrible amount of bug-fixes going into the net-2.6.14 tree after my new nfnetlink/nfnetlink_log/nfnetlink_queue/... stuff was merged. It is my belief that we've now covered most of it.

As of now, I'm not planning to make any other big netfilter-related patch submissions. So nf_conntrack will probably have to wait for 2.6.15, especially since there are still a number of ip_conntrack/nf_conntrack compatibility issues to be resolved.

Lately I've been working on the userspace side. At least libnfnetlink_log and the libipulog compat API are finished now. libnfnetlink_queue is getting there, and the 'big' missing part is the libipq compat API.

So now I'm heading for some work on ulogd2, libnfnetlink_conntrack and the virtual Ethernet device (vdev) code. And if I still have some time left, there's exciting non-netfilter stuff like my RFID stack.