* World of Open Source <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-16 12:58:05]: > 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- > >
Are they protecting DefCon from the internet or the internet from DefCon? -- Travers Buda
