From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Feb 3 14:07:27 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:07:27 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYCBUG Tonight Message-ID: <4B69C96F.4010201@ceetonetechnology.com> Several important events upcoming, including tonight's meeting. * * * * February 3rd, 645 pm, Wednesday, Suspenders Restaurant backroom http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php Aidan Cully on Systems Programming On A System On A Chip Embedded software is characterized by a tight coupling to its associated hardware. This means that there is an ability to reduce the hardware and software footprint to the barest version that can possibly support the intended applications of the embedded system. In turn, this means that many libraries written for full-featured operating systems are not well suited to run in the embedded environment, as they often assume a range of system features available in common desktop platforms, but unavailable to many embedded systems. This talk will emphasize techniques developers can use to make their software more suitable for embedded systems. I will also discuss debugging embedded applications, as well as the process of co-developing custom hardware, and its associated software drivers. Aidan Cully is a software engineer at Arkados, a fabless semiconductor manufacturer in Piscataway, NJ. * * * * There will be a BSD Certification exam and SME session Sunday, February 7th. https://register.bsdcertification.org//register/events/nycbug-1 Please contact us for more details. * * * * BSDCan will be held in May in Ottawa, Canada. http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/ * * * * The March NYCBUG meeting will be Ike Levy on pfSense. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sun Feb 7 10:19:48 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:19:48 -0500 Subject: [announce] BSD Certification Events Message-ID: <4B6EDA14.1050802@ceetonetechnology.com> Reminder: Today at noon is the BSD Certification Exam. A Subject Matter Expert session takes place at 2 pm. 55 Broad Street From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sun Feb 28 18:33:54 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:33:54 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Wednesday March 3rd Message-ID: <4B8AFD62.3090204@ceetonetechnology.com> March 03, 2010, Wednesday PFSense II, Rocking The Datacenter 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php In 2006, ike gave an overview on PFSense and it`s mother project m0n0wall, which were new and exciting router platforms back then. Quote from that first talk, (4 years ago): "throw your Linksys/SoHo/WiFi router in the garbage where it belongs" http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10027 Quote for this talk: "You might wanna` put your Sonicwall/Juniper/Cisco routers up on Ebay." pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. http://pfsense.org/ pfSense has matured into a full-fledged routing platform which fits right in at the datacenter. As all the big router vendors now tout fully browser-based administration- (over IOS, I2J, etc...) so the stigma of using pfSense in the enterprise is gone. Our speaker has been using pfSense in datacenter deployments for over 4 years, and will be describing how pfSense was used to save and secure several "organically dysfunctional" corporate networks, and maintain business continuity. Throughout the talk, these points will be emphasized: - Deploys: "Performing an Oil Change at 80mph" (quoting Michael Lucas) - Corporate Office/Colo Life with pfSense - Quickly/Safely Training Junior/Senior Network Sysadmins on pfSense - Taking the Magic/Macho out of HA networking - Networking can be Reliable/Understood/Fun Half of this talk is a quick pfSense bootstrap: - What *is* pfSense? (A Terrific Routing Platform!) - Hardware (Embedded and Regular x86 Systems) - The reality of recycling servers, (Go Green! and other buzzwords) - Install, basic setup- focused on typical multi-zone networks The other half of the talk will go through the incredibly advanced tools and features that make pfSense an excellent platform for High-Availability and Security at the datacenter: - CARP, Physical Redundancy, (and living with HSRP/VRRP/GLBP from your ISP) - Fully Redundant Load Balancing, 2 common roles: - (inbound) Load Balancing to scale Web Servers - (outbound) Load Balancing for multi-wan redundant networking - "Deep Packet Inspection" and other infosec buzzwords, done the PF/BSD way - Missing your IOS shell? pfSense gives you a UNIX Shell- infinite possibilities! - pfSense/embedded shell specifics, (read-only filesysem on CF?) - NanoBSD/implementation notes... - Using pf from the shell - interacting with system firewall/traffic-shaping/etc.. - dancing a tango with the GUI - Syslog, SNMP, and all fixin`s - Config Management for Network Scaling/Sanity As Sr. Infrastructure Engineer at the emerging startup Proclivity Systems, Isaac ".ike" Levy is obsessed with high-availability systems and transparent failover, mostly because he likes to sleep a t night. Standing on the shoulders of giants, his background includes partnering to run a Virtual Server ISP before there was ever a cloud in the sky, as well as having a long history hacking internet-facing applications on UNIX systems. .ike has been a part of NYC*BUG since it was first launched in January 2004. He was a long-time member of the Lower East Side Mac Unix User Group, and is still in denial that this group no longer exists. He has spoken frequently on a number of topics at various venues, particularly on the issue of FreeBSD`s jail (8).