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

[Hugh Davenport]

Perfect, added it to the list, and will add it to the website at some 
point.

Cheers,

Hugh

On 2013-07-08 11:06, Michael Lawson wrote:
> Ok, sounds great.
> 
> I DON'T HAVE AN EXTENSIVE BIO, BUT HERE IS A SHOT.
> Hailing from Christchurch, Germany and most recently Auckland, I am a
> developer with a thing for security, networking and high performance
> computing. Having spent the last 4 years working in both Christchurch
> and Munich Germany working for one of Europe's biggest online
> advertising agency as a developer and sysadmin, I decided to take a
> leap of faith and pursue my pet project "Sphirewall". Prior to my work
> for Adscale, I have worked for Telstraclear, Eftpos NZ, Online
> communications and a few other small companies.  
> 
> My passion is creating software that is available for everyone without
> limitations or cost, and this is what fuelled my development of
> Sphirewall. I hate companies that offer a half baked solution and open
> source it as a marketing technique.
> 
> TALK
> Why I created yet another open source router/firewall and why it kicks
> the socks of other options available in the same market. I will
> lightly go into what I found was missing in other products, why this
> was missing and how having these features changes how you manage your
> network.
> 
> Is this enough?
> Thanks
> 
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Hugh Davenport
> <hugh at davenport.net.nz> wrote:
> 
>> Hey Michael,
>> 
>> Ranges from 10min-1hour ish, as long as you keep interest you can
>> keep rambling
>> 
>> You decide :D. I'll book you in for next month, did you have a bio
>> for yourself
>> and your talk I can post on the website/list?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Hugh
>> 
>> On 2013-07-08 10:34, Michael Lawson wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Hugh,
>> Sure I would love to, how long do talks normally go for? Next
>> Monday
>> is no problems for me.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>>  On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Hugh Davenport
>> <hugh at davenport.net.nz> wrote:
>> 
>> 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]
>> [1] [1] or
>> 
>> read a bit about our story at http://blog.sphirewall.net/?p=145
>> [2]
>> [2] [2]
>> 
>> Cheers,--
>> Michael Lawson
>> 
>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1] http://sphirewall.net [1] [1]
>> [2] http://blog.sphirewall.net/?p=145 [2] [2]
>> 
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>  Links:
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>  [1] http://sphirewall.net [1]
>  [2] http://blog.sphirewall.net/?p=145 [2]
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> Links:
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> [1] http://sphirewall.net
> [2] http://blog.sphirewall.net/?p=145
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