m0n0wall project at school
I'm going to a local technical college where I'm in the information security program. Well, the sguil boxen at work didn't end up working as anticipated due to hardware issues. Shortly thereafter, I left my position with the manufacturing company to concentrate on school full-time.After four quarters of "core knowledge education", we are allowed to choose an "option". I chose the Communications Security course, which is kind of like learning skills for the CEH, but not quite.
My instructor named me team lead for the firewall team on our first project--I'll try very hard to live up to the responsibility. My team is working with the network design and implementation team on our project. The project is pretty simple in nature: design and implement a network structure we can use in-class on (but apart from) the school's network for learning about attacks and defense. (Yes, we will be touching on some of the administration and security tools both the "good guys" and "bad guys" use. It is my hope I will not end up a "corporate script kiddie", as a certain CEH trainer liked to call some of his former students in their role.)
I have to admit to a FreeBSD bias. I'm in love with an operating system. While I may use another OS temporarily, FreeBSD is my choice in OS. Considering this, and knowing that Smoothwall's been done to death in my classroom, I convinced my team to try m0n0wall with remote logging instead of Smoothwall.
Hopefully all will go fairly well. If not, we will have to go with a "known entity" as one of my senior team members is quite familiar with Smoothwall.
Funny story to add quickly to this chaos:
Most of our hardware has been rearranged in our network room at my home. My husband did most of the work while I was at school one day. Consequently, I'm not sure which boxes are hooked up to the KVM and which aren't. I've had very minimal time to play with FreeBSD since I had been in school from 8am to 3pm and at work from 4pm to midnight every day from September 24th 2006 until July 13th 2007, then had a wedding to plan and implement. (I guess that's like a big project...)
So I'm in panic mode level 2, trying to figure out which Windows box has the CD burning hw/sw installed on it, and whether it's hooked up to the KVM. NONE of the Windows boxes were either hooked up or had the right equipment! So panic mode reaches level 3 of 5. I *need* to burn m0n0wall's image to CD before noon. It's almost 10am. Finally, I wonder if I can get one of the BSD boxen to do it, seeing as it's got the hardware to do so. I start to look up how-to's.
And whaddyaknow? FreeBSD has "burncd" as part of this balanced, nutritious OS. YAY! I get the information downloaded and burnt, and I'm good to go! Five minutes, and NO FUSS!!
This is part of the reason I *love* FreeBSD. It's like a tall, handsome, mysterious stranger who can fulfill almost my every computing need. Oh, and he's not charging me any extra to get the job done and satisfy my desires. ;)
My instructor named me team lead for the firewall team on our first project--I'll try very hard to live up to the responsibility. My team is working with the network design and implementation team on our project. The project is pretty simple in nature: design and implement a network structure we can use in-class on (but apart from) the school's network for learning about attacks and defense. (Yes, we will be touching on some of the administration and security tools both the "good guys" and "bad guys" use. It is my hope I will not end up a "corporate script kiddie", as a certain CEH trainer liked to call some of his former students in their role.)
I have to admit to a FreeBSD bias. I'm in love with an operating system. While I may use another OS temporarily, FreeBSD is my choice in OS. Considering this, and knowing that Smoothwall's been done to death in my classroom, I convinced my team to try m0n0wall with remote logging instead of Smoothwall.
Hopefully all will go fairly well. If not, we will have to go with a "known entity" as one of my senior team members is quite familiar with Smoothwall.
Funny story to add quickly to this chaos:
Most of our hardware has been rearranged in our network room at my home. My husband did most of the work while I was at school one day. Consequently, I'm not sure which boxes are hooked up to the KVM and which aren't. I've had very minimal time to play with FreeBSD since I had been in school from 8am to 3pm and at work from 4pm to midnight every day from September 24th 2006 until July 13th 2007, then had a wedding to plan and implement. (I guess that's like a big project...)
So I'm in panic mode level 2, trying to figure out which Windows box has the CD burning hw/sw installed on it, and whether it's hooked up to the KVM. NONE of the Windows boxes were either hooked up or had the right equipment! So panic mode reaches level 3 of 5. I *need* to burn m0n0wall's image to CD before noon. It's almost 10am. Finally, I wonder if I can get one of the BSD boxen to do it, seeing as it's got the hardware to do so. I start to look up how-to's.
And whaddyaknow? FreeBSD has "burncd" as part of this balanced, nutritious OS. YAY! I get the information downloaded and burnt, and I'm good to go! Five minutes, and NO FUSS!!
This is part of the reason I *love* FreeBSD. It's like a tall, handsome, mysterious stranger who can fulfill almost my every computing need. Oh, and he's not charging me any extra to get the job done and satisfy my desires. ;)
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