On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:58:05PM +0800, World of Open Source wrote: > "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
I thought the CCC Congress in Berlin became the most hostile network environment in the world ;). The major difference is that the CCCC did not filter or record any data. Unfortunately, they also started with the Aruba shit... > 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-
