[wellylug] Anyone interested in hearing about a new opensource firewall router being built in NZ

Hugh Davenport hugh at davenport.net.nz
Mon Jul 8 10:26:50 NZST 2013


Hi Michael,

I think this would be a great talk, and I would be interested in hearing 
about
benefits of this over iptables itself.

We currently have a talk this month, but if you would like, could you 
present
this month? Meeting is monday next week, 6pm.

Cheers,

Hugh

On 2013-07-07 14:18, Michael Lawson wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am the lead developer and founder/creator of a project called
> Sphirewall. Its an opensource linux router/firewall built from the
> ground up to provide a lot more visibility and control over a network
> than what is available in the other opensource products. It works
> inline in the linux kernel with a hooking module, rather than just
> generating iptable rules. 
> 
> I am wondering if anyone in the WUG would be interested in hearing a
> bit more about it one night. 
> 
> You can see more on the project website, http://sphirewall.net [1] or
> read a bit about our story at http://blog.sphirewall.net/?p=145 [2]
> 
> Cheers,--
> Michael Lawson
> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://sphirewall.net
> [2] http://blog.sphirewall.net/?p=145



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