Schedule

Moving the schedule for Wednesday to the wiki

Pablos program is still there... but this is the current plan.

Wednesday 20th October

10h TProxy for IPv6 & bugfixes

• Speaker: Krisztián Kovács & Balázs Scheidler
• Proposed by: self
• Type: Discussion
• Time required: 15 minutes
• Description: We have some pending bugfixes for TProxy and the new shiny feature of support transparent proxying for IPv6.

10:30h Challenges and experiences with IPTV from a network point of view

• Speaker: Jesper Dangaard Brouer
• Proposed by: self
• Type: Presentation and product release
• Target audience: End users
• Time required: 45 minutes
• Description: I will explain our real-life challenges with IPTV multicast signals on loaded Ethernet switches, with bursty traffic patterns. To face these challenges, I have developed a iptables module for analyzing IPTV/MPEG2-TS streams.

11:15h Using the perf tool

• Speaker: Eric Dumazet
• Proposed by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer
• Type: Tutorial
• Time required: 15-30 minutes
• Description: Short introduction to the performance measurement tool 'perf', which comes together with the kernel tree.

12:00h Open vSwitch Overview

• Speaker: Simon Horman
• Proposed by: self
• Type: Discussion
• Time required: 45 minutes
• Description: A brief introduction to Open vSwitch, what it is, why it is interesting and some ideas for how it could be improved

(after lunch) Sharing: Git tricks and tips

• Speaker: Jan Engelhardt
• Proposed by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer
• Type: tutorial
• Target audience: Developers (toolchain end users)
• Time required: 15 minutes
• Description: Practical hints and tricks of howto use Git by the Git gurus. Explaining the stg tool, StackedGit, and how it makes it easier to work with large patch sets.

17:15 libnetfilter_* library status

• Speaker: Pablo Neira Ayuso
• Proposed by: self
• Type: Presentation
• Target audience: Developers (API users)
• Time required: 15 minutes
• Description: The status of the libnetfilter_* user-space libraries.

Fun with conntrack expectations in user-space with libnetfilter libraries

• Speaker: Pablo Neira Ayuso
• Proposed by: self
• Type: project status and proposals
• Time required: 15 minutes
• Description: Since 2.6.37-rc, Netfilter will provide the basic infrastructure to implement conntrack helpers in user-space. This talk will cover this new feature and proposes some new developments in this direction.

Thursday 21th October

Sysadm tasks for netfilter.org

• Speaker: Jesper Dangaard Brouer, Pablo or Patrick
• Type: Administrative + Discussion
• Target audience: Netfilter Core Team and direct associates
• Link: Sysadm Tasks
• Time required: 30 minutes
• Description: We need to assign persons to the netfilter.org system administration maintenance tasks and responsibilities. Discuss which services we want to provide on netfilter.org.