Two announcements for today. An accepted talk and a new sponsor. 1) The tech committee would like to announce a new accepted talk. Arthur Davis and Tom Distler will talk about their quest for a quest for a network configuration solution for a large Linux storage application Details are as follows: ------- This talk is about our quest for a network configuration solution for a large Linux storage application. Our application is based on a highly available cluster architecture which requires dynamic and reliable software-driven network configuration. Further requirements include: - programmatic access to configure the majority of the Linux network stack, - transaction-like semantics where multiple related configurations either fail or succeed as a unit, - logic to monitor the system and when it differs from the expected configuration, provide notifications and possibly attempt automatic repairs, - and all of this without becoming entangled with application-specific expectations about behaviors and policies. The talk expands upon the above set of core requirements and discusses some of the difficulties around meeting these requirements with currently available open source solutions. Our journey leads to a new configuration system to meet these requirements, and we discuss some key architecture and design aspects of the system. We are planning to release our work into the open source community and we hope the talk will encourage discussion and provide us feedback on making this work better. -------- 2) The organizing committee would like to announce Savoirfairelinux joining as a bronze sponsor. Thank you! cheers, jamal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
