[PLUG] OS Bug Tracking systems

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Herrington
All, Has anyone tried any of the open source bug tracking systems? Bugzilla appears to be the most prevalent, but I'm curious to get your input on it and others. I'd prefer something that runs under Solaris but if it's good enough I'd get a linux box together for it. thanks, -- Daniel B.

Re: [PLUG] OS Bug Tracking systems

2010-05-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 10 May 2010, Daniel Herrington wrote: Has anyone tried any of the open source bug tracking systems? Bugzilla appears to be the most prevalent, but I'm curious to get your input on it and others. Daniel, The two others with which I'm familiar are trac and mantis. Rich

Re: [PLUG] VPN security questions for laptops

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 10 May 2010, Tim wrote: If there are any other ideas, please speak up. We will have laptops in the field but want to lock them down fairly securely. (I hope to avoid putting that other OS on them) How about OpenVPN plus iptables? We find OpenVPN to be quite flexible and stable

Re: [PLUG] VPN security questions for laptops

2010-05-10 Thread Vincent L. Damewood
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:01 PM, website reader website.read...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have any recommendations?  We are trying to set up something with remote VPN client capabilities to contact a central VPN server, but not break the bank nor get tied into a 2 year security software contract

Re: [PLUG] VPN security questions for laptops

2010-05-10 Thread Isaac Michael
Hello Randall, Take a look at Fortigate 60. (fortinet.com) Super easy to setup Site-to- Site VPN easy to Setup IPSEC VPN And It comes with SSL-VPN also, super easy to setup. Along with many other features ... You do not need contract for any of the above listed options to

Re: [PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Johnson
I've been thinking of switching from vmware server to full virtualization on my laptop using Xen. I would have the Xen hypervisor running and then Dom0 running a linux flavor with my virtual machines converted to Xen guests. Is anyone Xen? Do you think this would be feasible? What linux

Re: [PLUG] VPN security questions for laptops

2010-05-10 Thread Bill Barry
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:01 PM, website reader website.read...@gmail.comwrote: Folks and IP security gurus: I need to find a good firewall with VPN capabilities for a start up LLC. I have had experience with the Cisco ASA 5505 security appliance (fancy name for firewall), but found that

Re: [PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Herrington
What about performance? Isn't the Xen hypervisor simply a stripped down linux kernel with Xen? I would think that you would get better performance through the Xen hypervisor with direct hardware pass through than KVM and a full blown linux install. Is that not true? On 05/10/2010 01:42 PM,

Re: [PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 10 May 2010, Daniel Herrington wrote: What about performance? Isn't the Xen hypervisor simply a stripped down linux kernel with Xen? I would think that you would get better performance through the Xen hypervisor with direct hardware pass through than KVM and a full blown linux

Re: [PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Herrington
Cool, thanks. I have a quad Proliant with 16gb of ram coming this week and I'll throw ubuntu server on it with kvm. On 05/10/2010 03:47 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2010, Daniel Herrington wrote: What about performance? Isn't the Xen hypervisor simply a stripped down linux