First day of Netfilter Workshop

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:00:00 CEST

This was the first day of the Netfilter Workshop. Really nice to meet all the netfilter hackers again. Lots of nice talks, I gave a small half-improvised talk about a datastructure I'm working on, a hashtrie to be used for connectiontracking. I showed some performance numbers comparing the regular hashtable of ip_conntrack to itself with diffrent configurations. And I showed some results comparing the regular hashtable with the hashtrie.

Later in the evening we went out for dinner, that was really nice. I think there were around 20 people attending the dinner resulting in lots of discussions about many netfilter related issues. Some of us went back to the hotel early in order to get some well needed sleep, that failed as expected, but it was worth a try. Me and Harald ended up talking about a lot of diffrent things, including swedish and german food for a while instead so we didn't get more sleep anyway.