Kevin,
On the contrary, I am very helpful to the overall security and firewall community
as a whole, having installed many systems and trained throughout the nation and the
world. Being a security-minded individual, I am very skeptical of anyone
requesting information that would point directly to the type of firewall I or my
company utilizes. Security-minded individuals don't disclose this type of
information at will.
In addition, since you have now disclosed that you are a Cisco employee, I would be
less apt to provide you with any information regarding my security infrastructure.
This appears to be some sort of "get rich" scheme on your behalf.
My advice to the firewall community is to request co-ownership of the product
before its development.
Sincerely,
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> Gary: Welcome to being the first non-supportive reply I've recieved. I'm
> sure you can remain steadfast and proud that you've protected so many from
> the my evil clutches and the terror which surely would have ensued if
> people had been helpful in giving me real or fake firewall logs. As always
> I'm completely amazed at how helpful you are to the firewall community as
> a whole.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *grins* that said..
>
> If you must know.. it will be open source.. however I haven't wanted to
> clog up the firewalls mailing list with the info. The reason for this
> being that I have no wants to get anyone excited about something I'm doing
> as a test, which has a chance at being vaporware, and which has no backing
> from any company which is well known in the field.
>
> I believe the last two of those points will change very shortly. I've
> recieved an overwhelmingly warm response from the people that have written
> me to ask what the deal is, what I have in mind, and in some cases to ask
> that I sign NDA's for release of information.
>
> You'll notice in my previous email that I specified that the firewall info
> could be real or not. This is because I *don't care* what the info it
> contains is.. all I care about is the format so I can compile it into the
> other formats which I already know. There's a specific purpose to this and
> hopefully I will be able to give more details soon.
>
> If anyone that reads this has any questions as to what I'm doing you're
> welcomed to email me and ask. As before I'd rather not clog up the list
> with this discussion. I will be asking for help in the near future,
> however I'm trying to go about this in such a way that the people involved
> are a fairly small group that can move quickly and get things done.
>
> If you have any further question as to my motives then ask and I would be
> happy to provide you with answers.
>
> Kevin Lynn
>
> On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Gary D. Long wrote:
>
> > OK, I hope everyone does fall over each other trying to fulfill this request.
> > Who would be so naive to vital information about your company's operation
> > (firewall logs contain IP addresses, etc.) to a complete stranger? In
> > addition, this smells like a new product development instead of some
> > "opensource" tool.
> >
> > This forum is to try to provide solutions for people with firewall-related
> > problems, and not to help those with self-interest in mind.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > This is likely going to seem a strange request but I'm going to ask
> > > anyways, I'm trying to collect firewall log examples from as many
> > > different types of firewalls as I can find. It is to test a tool I've been
> > > working on that will likely be released opensource when I'm finished.
> > >
> > > The logs don't have to be new, or real, they just need to be the same
> > > format that the firewall they are from writes the logs to.
> > >
> > > If anyone could help me with this by sending me about 20-30k of your logs
> > > (new or old, real or not), I'd really appreciate it. Firewalls I'm
> > > specifically looking for include PIX, Firewall-1, Gautlet, Raptor,
> > > netscreen, watchguarrd, cyberguard, <yourname>guard :P.. basically any
> > > firewall logs I can get my hands on.. Please include the name of the
> > > firewall and the version as well.
> > >
> > > Thankyou in advance,
> > > Kevin Lynn
> > >
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> > Gary D. Long
> > Kindred Systems, Inc.
> > 888-746-4574
> > www.kindredsystems.com
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
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