This was posted up on Wired.com a few days ago. Both posts are interesting, but it might have been far more interesting to show something of the network diagram along with the pf.conf file. What could we learn from it?
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:58 PM, World of Open Source < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OpenBSD is trusted to handle and defense Defcon network!! Nice!! > > DefCon 16: Hackers and a Gag Order in Sin City > Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 15, 2008 11:11 PM UTC > LXer Linux News; By Derek Knowlton > http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/107146/ > > Quote: > > "DefCon produces the most hostile network environment in the world every > year. The DefCon network has evolved with the event. What started out as a > casually constructed resource to provide access to the Internet and a venue > for pranksters to attack has grown into a hardened network. A quad-core > Xeon > supports the network with openBSD as the firewall protecting a backbone > link > to (an estimated) 150 vlans, propagated to the public with 35 Aruba AP-70 > wireless access points and 30 ethernet connections to support the > administration of the event. The AP-70s are maintained by a management > switch. The AP-70s allow and monitor traffic and can triangulate the > position of signals received. Since they are all propagating a signal from > the management switch, traffic can be analyzed and recorded for the > competitions." > > -woss-
