Released my ipt_recent module version 0.2.1 as official (it had previously been beta). No actual changes from the 0.2.1-beta version, just packaged slightly differently. It's a patch against the netfilter CVS tree. I've sent the patch along to the netfilter team, hopefully they'll incorporate the changes before long.

I've updated my projects page with my summer soccer schedule for those who are interested. Looks like basically one game per week, usually on Sat. at 7:00pm.

Classes are going decently so far, I'm pretty sure I ace'd my Numerical Methods exam last week and I think I did decently on my probability exam too. Only problem with those classes is actually getting all of the homework done for them. I'm ace'ing my Astronomy lab, and this is the last week of it which is really nice. Starting next week I'll only have classes on Tuesday and Thursday. The lab hasn't been hard or anything, but it does take a number of hours out of my day that could be better spent on other things so it'll be really nice once that's over.

Just got back from the netfest, was definitely alot of fun, as always. Had Outback Friday night, played some Q3 and Super Smash Bros., crashed, got up on Sat., had grilled burgers and hotdogs and such, lots more Smash Bros., a little more Q3 and a 4am game of Saturn Bomberman (8 people playing), much fun. Crashed again to wake up around 9:30am on Sunday and left around 11am. Got home at about 2pm, finished counting up my change ($164.10 (w/o the pennies)!), put my box back together and had some food. :) Very fun weekend all-in-all. Looking forward to the next one in Aug., hopefully I'll be able to make it to that one. Oh, and happy father's day. :)

The next netfest is this weekend and I'm making plans to be there. Hopefully I'll be leaving on Friday morning and following Jon up to New Jersey for it and then be back Sunday afternoon. I'm definitely looking forward to it, I've missed a few recently due to school, work, etc. For those who don't know, netfest is basically a game day at Jon's brother's place in Jersey which includes PCs, ps2, ps1, game cube and a bunch of other consoles (Including original Nintendo and Faxanadu! I *loved* that game). Lots of fun.

New version of my recent module is out and that version is now running on my firewall. It's been working fine for about 2 days now, I'll probably submit a patch to the netfilter crew when I get back from netfest if everything goes well.

Oh, yeah, and school has been kicking my butt too, two exams tommorow. The only good thing is that my stupid lab will be over with in a couple of weeks.

I did alot of updates to my IPTables/Netfilter Recent module last night which included changing it to use vmalloc instead of kmalloc, adding alot of debugging options and actually versioning the thing. I've tested it some and things appear to work pretty decently, a number of the bugs which exist in the current version in the Netfilter CVS tree have been fixed. The hash-based lookups are a big change from the prior version and affected alot of the code and so this is still definitely beta code.

Also updated the layout of the website some, I believe I tested everything but if you find any broken links be sure to let me know. Main changes shouldn't really be noticable unless you linked into the machines or projects areas directly.

Worked on my ipt_recent module some, fixed up at least one problem and set up a decent test environment for working with it. The testing environment is, happily, not my primary client machine any more which will probably help alot. I was much less interested in working with the module when it seemed that every time I did something with it, my main machine would crash. ;) I tested the module a bit last night though and it seemed to do everything correctly after I fixed a small bug that wasn't even causing the box to crash anyway. I have a feeling the problem is in the collision handling in the hash table but I havn't tested it yet. What I really need is something that will let me generate a bunch of packets from a bunch of different ip addresses easily so I can test out that part of the code. Gotta be something out there that does that, if not I guess I'll write something but if anyone knows of something feel free to drop me an email.

Changed the machines page for bma's box since he took some issue with my original comment regarding the floppy drive. (Oh, and it has this small 'problem', when capt'n slick (bma) set it up he connected the floppy backwards so now the floppy drive light is on solid and probably will be for the next few years. :) He came over last weekend and fixed it though, so I had to change it for him.