Dear all, the "father of netfilter", Rusty Russell, has just given a keynote at the 20th anniversary of linux.conf.au. In this keynote, he covers his personal journey into Free Software and Linux, his work on ipchains and netfilter/iptables, the starting of linux.conf.au and the source of his motivation and continued success: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Vv3gB1LkI For those of you who want to know more about the early days of netfilter/iptables, or catch a glimpse of the personality of its founder, the keynote is an excellent resource. It was great working with Rusty in the early years of netfilter, and I'm very happy to see that his "constructive absentism" approach has worked out so well. Cheers to Pablo and the current team of developers for continuing his legacy :) Happy hacking, Harald -- - Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://netfilter.org/ ============================================================================ "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie
