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By Robin Gruyters on July 2, 2008 4:58 PM |
It has been a long time that I have updated my blog. I have moved company again, moved back to Snow. One of the major reason is I like to work more closely to home and working on projects. (Network and Security related projects)

Been also busy producing my own songs. You can check my MySpace page for more info.
Using Ableton with Microtonic VST plugin. It is just an awesome plugin, you should check it out.

Also it is festival season, so check my flickr page for the photos.

But, hopefully i will find the time to add more security related posts in the near future.

Sguil 0.7 released

By Robin Gruyters on March 31, 2008 8:09 AM | | Comments (0)
Last week Bamm has made Sguil version 0.7.0 final and released it on Sguil website.
Big changes are separation of agents, (resp. snort_agent, pcap_agent and sancp_agent), added Passive Asset Detection System (PADS) agent and a lot of bug fixes.

For those who aren't familiar with Sguil, check the Sguil website or the overview on Sguil Wiki page.

When I can find the time, I will post my article about 'Network Security Monitoring in a multi tiered environment'.

Bonding interface with FreeBSD > 6.2

By Robin Gruyters on March 11, 2008 2:40 PM | | Comments (0)

When you are using a Network TAP (e.g. NetOptics), and want to bond the interfaces on a FreeBSD, then you have a new way to do this.

Since FreeBSD 6.3 they have introduced a new device called lagg(4). Lagg is a link aggregation and link failover interface.

With lagg you can easily bond two interfaces together.

# ifconfig lagg0 create
# ifconfig lagg0 laggproto fec laggport bge0 laggport bge1 monitor up

Default it uses failover protocol, which you don’t want to use when bonding interfaces. The best protocol for this would be Cisco EtherChannel.

Bring the pulse back into your life

By Robin Gruyters on October 17, 2007 2:40 PM | | Comments (0)
Scott J. Roberts from Vulnerable Minds has come up with a great website to bring all the important security related topic to one central place and call it Pulse.

What a great idea! Why I haven't come up with it.

Here is the full story about why and how.

RSS and Atom issues

By Robin Gruyters on October 11, 2007 9:59 PM | | Comments (0)
I have still some issues with my RSS and Atom feeds. Somehow the markup is not getting interpreted. I use Markdown with Smartypants. Why? well, I got use to it to use it on daily basis, so that is basicly it.

Hopefully they can fix it A.S.A.P.

In the mean time you have to skip your favorite feed reader, and use the "old" fasion way, with your browser.

In Rainbows

By Robin Gruyters on October 11, 2007 9:44 PM | | Comments (0)

It is out and it’s very damn good! The new (downloadable) album from Radiohead. And the best thing is, you can choose what you want to pay for it! Will this be the new way to get the record(s) from your favorite artist/group?

Although there is one minus downfall about this, no cover art available. Well, not an official one. Jon Hicks has created his own interpretation of In Rainbows and asked his readers to come up with their contributions.

Anyway, happy downloading

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