Re: dDoS attacks

2002-11-07 Thread Damien Miller
Han Boetes wrote: Not so much as a direct reply but more as to share what happened when I was ddossed a few month ago. The thing that brought my pc to it's knees was pflog trying to log it all. Once I found that out I disabled logging and Then I hardly had a connection because my upload

Off-topic venting of frustration (was: fully transparent ftp-proxy and other stories...)

2002-11-07 Thread Roy Badami
Oh well, having just learnt the astonishing truth that OpenBSD CD images aren't available for download, the (probably unrealistic) possiblity of deploying an OpenBSD based firewall this Saturday rather than the planned Linux deployment has just dropped to precisely 0%. Maybe I'll just play with

Re: Off-topic venting of frustration (was: fully transparentftp-proxy and other stories...)

2002-11-07 Thread Jason Dixon
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 22:14, Roy Badami wrote: Probably for the best anyway, I guess building a firewall on an unfamiliar OS in a hurry is not the best idea in the world... Without question. -J.

Re: fully transparent ftp-proxy and other stories...

2002-11-07 Thread Roy Badami
Check out the Hut project. It's a FreeBSD implementation of the VRRP protocol, including Load Balancing via VIP's. There has been a port to OpenBSD as well (no personal experience). Looks interesting, but it's not what I'm after. What I need to be able to do is the equivalent of:

Re: Off-topic venting of frustration (was: fully transparent ftp-proxy and other stories...)

2002-11-07 Thread jsyn
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:14:58AM +, Roy Badami wrote: Sorry to complain, just feel the need to vent my frustration at the fact that it appears I can't get hold of a copy of OpenBSD at short notice... Excuse me? Of course you can. You just grab a few tarballs and do an install via any