Contact
If you want to contact me, you can send me an email on my first name at the domain you are visiting.
Usually I’m online in the #vuurmuur, #oisf, #snort and #snort-gui channels on Freenode’s IRC service. My nick there is VictorJ.
You can also contact me through LinkedIn. See http://www.linkedin.com/in/victorjulien.
Victor,
Congrats on Suricata.
I am trying to get snort_inline in nfqueue mode working with my traffic shaping using imq, on the same box (before you crucify me i know its not the best idea).
All goes well both start with all their required kernel modules fine, not like the good ol’ip_queue days. However it seems it breaks iptables, did you run into any complications like this ?
Hi Kayvan, I have never tried using IMQ with Snort_inline or other NFQUEUE using programs. Does it work without IMQ? I seem to remember reading about IMQ having issues with ip_queue at the time, but my memory is fuzzy on this point.
Hello
I am trying to implement an IPS using Snort on solaris 10
Any help on this in kind of manuals, HOWTOs, etc, will be appreciated,
Regards
Emmanuel
Dear Victor,
Why have you stopped working on Vuurmurr project? Ain’t you no more interested in its evolutioning? Honestly say, I find your project very useful indeed and I’d be glad to know it you’ll continue working on it at least some more time.
Best wishes,
Ilya Egorov (Russia, Moscow)
Ilya, I’ve not abandoned Vuurmuur, development is just very slow. A couple of other guys are helping out as well, but they have limited time as well.
Hi Victor,
I’m going to integrate Vuurmuur in a new Linux OS called Fortress Linux, since I’m very satisfied about the features of your product.
Fortress Linux uses the Slackware package system (without forking Slackware) and I will contribute to your project when possible.
Kind Regards,
Palatinux
(The Netherlands)
@Patatinux: cool, your project looks interesting. I do think it looks a bit “closed” though. Can’t find who is behind it, mailinglists don’t seem to have public archives, etc, etc. Makes it hard to see if the project is active and what direction it’s moving in.
Victor: Thank you. Even if it does not seem active, It is really alive, but I have to do it all by my own now since the other two developers left the team after a short time we started the project.
There was a FL release avaliable in the beginning. But I didn’t like it and I started all over again with an new and improved concept to attract more users in the future.
The main goal now is to replace a lot of software I wrote myself in the last 15 years (which where included into the first release I mentioned above) by possible better and more up-to-date software, which will be modified on its turn to fit the needs of the Fortress Linux OS. This will save me a lot of time maintaining the whole project including my own software. You know how much time it takes to maintain only the vuurmuur firewall.
The advanced new website takes some time to create (and to secure it). There is an preview of the new and more advanced Fortress Linux website on http://www.fortresslinux.nl
Anyway, the reason why I respond here again is that I also want to try out Suricata, but I cannot find some extensive details about it. The only thing I do not like are the funders of the Suricata project. Can it be used together with grsecurity?
Vuurmuur is a pretty nice program though it misses important features of iptables. But it’s better than many other webbased and gui-based firewalls. I have made some changes into the Vuurmuur software which I want to give back to you.