On 9/30/2014 8:28 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Richard Pieri wrote:
Ubiquiti's...OS is proprietary...
It's a Debian fork, 2-steps removed. (Fork of a fork.)
I could have sworn I saw Ubiquiti's literature use the word
"proprietary" in there somewhere. Yep, it's in the packet acceleration
chunk.
Richard Pieri wrote:
> Ubiquiti's...OS is proprietary...
It's a Debian fork, 2-steps removed. (Fork of a fork.)
Similarly iGuardian is packaging OpenWRT, which may or may not qualify
as a fork. It might in the sense that they probably bundle binary blobs
to support their hardware, which you are s
On 9/30/2014 6:39 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Both are open platforms so you could configure either to have or not
have DPI.
Not entirely true. Ubiquiti's hardware is pretty open but their OS is
proprietary and I have no idea how stable it would be after coercing it
to do something unsupported.
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Richard Pieri wrote:
> ER Lite does not do DPI...
> iGuardian will run out of RAM for active connections sooner than ER Lite.
Agreed, but the thought experiment was how would the iGuardian compare
to the ER Lite if you ran SNORT on the latter.
Both are open platforms so you could configure either
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 05:36:26AM -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
> If they can deliver a 2-core, 1 GHz CPU w/1 GB RAM appliance for $150,
> that'll be a good deal. They say in their FAQ, "Hobbyists and hackers
> wishing to modify the iGuardian software to use the hardware platform
> for other purposes ar
On 9/30/2014 5:36 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
The EdgeRouter Lite (the $100 model) only has 512 MB RAM. (Powered by a
"Dual-Core 500 MHz, MIPS64 with Hardware Acceleration for Packet
Processing.")
And as you noted, ER Lite does not do DPI which means it has more RAM
available to handle active connect
Richard Pieri wrote:
> The prototype is 512M and the target spec is 1GB.
According to the Ubiquiti data sheet:
http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/datasheets/edgemax/EdgeRouter_DS.pdf
The EdgeRouter Lite (the $100 model) only has 512 MB RAM. (Powered by a
"Dual-Core 500 MHz, MIPS64 with Hardware Accele
On 9/29/2014 10:24 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Were you able to find a RAM spec for the iGuardian? Their site seemed
pretty light on details.
It's on their Kickstarter. The prototype is 512M and the target spec is 1GB.
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Richard Pieri wrote:
> On paper, based on RAM capacity, I figure the iGuardian box will run out
> of memory and crash much sooner than the Edgemax device.
Were you able to find a RAM spec for the iGuardian? Their site seemed
pretty light on details.
If I recall correctly, the Ubiquity products al
On 9/29/2014 5:14 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
SNORT. I'd be curious to know how a competing device like the Ubiquiti
Edgemax handles running SNORT.
On paper, based on RAM capacity, I figure the iGuardian box will run out
of memory and crash much sooner than the Edgemax device. And if you
don't think
Tom Metro wrote:
> The same episode also covers the iGuardian Kickstarter project that aims
> to produce a $150 enterprise-grade home router that includes deep packet
> inspection and regular updates:
> http://www.itusnetworks.com/home
The host of "This Week in Enterprise Tech" seems to be pushing
On 9/13/2014 4:46 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> OpenWRT supports optware package management, for example. You should be
> able to update packages on the fly, without a device reboot. (I've
> installed packages this way on my routers running Tomato USB.)
Try doing that with the kernel. Last I looked, Toma
Richard Pieri wrote:
> How do you go about updating the OS?
>
> With an embedded OS you back up your settings, restart the device in a
> special run mode, write out an image to local storage, restart in the
> normal run mode, and restore your settings. Some update mechanisms
> perform the settings
On 9/12/2014 6:44 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> You'll have to clarify what "embedded" means to you, and how that would
> differ from pfSense running on appliance hardware.
How do you go about updating the OS?
With an embedded OS you back up your settings, restart the device in a
special run mode, write
Richard Pieri wrote:
> Comparing his $150 box to a Juniper IPS that costs ten times as much (or
> more) is disingenuous.
I just want to clarify (for other BLU readers) that the "his" above
doesn't refer to Dan Geer. His interview and the iGuardian product are
unconnected, and only were mentioned i
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