The Sound of Your Firewall

upside writes "It had to be done. Once The Spinning Cube of Potential Doom gave us a 3D visualization of a firewall, someone was bound to ask themselves 'What does your firewall sound like?'."

Comments

Mac Version

[inertia187]

Here's the mac version:

#!/bin/sh
tail --follow=name /var/log/system.log | \
awk '
$0 ~ /DROP/ {
system("open /Library/Sounds/Submarine.aiff");
}
'

Don't forget to run it as root.

Re:Mac Version

[hackstraw]

Unless you installed GNU tail, the OSX tail does not have the --follow option.

Don't forget to run it as root.

You don't need root access, you only need to be in the admin group, which I would guess you already are if you have root access.

Plus, I would guess that the default option for playing an aiff file is via Quicktime, which may get intrusive.

Lesson learned, don't mod something as informative unless you know what it says.

Already done...

[Cheerio Boy]

Can't read the article due to 'slashing but it's already been done by peep - the network analyzer:

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proce edings/lisa2000/gilfix/gilfix_html/

Peep / Network Auralizer

[cyrilc]

Peep is a great tool to hear what's going on out there... where the hackers play !

It plays sound whenever an connection is made on a designated port (smtp, domain (DNS), http...) but also can play specific sounds based on events (keywords on log file -> snort, auth.log etc.)

PEEP the Network Auralizer

[SadPenguin]

PEEP the Network Auralizer This project, cooperatively developed by a faculty member and student in the Tufts University Comp. Sci. dept. answers this question. PEEP applies sounds to network events. Its really cool, i had checked it out, but didn't have much time to get very far with it. I imagine this software's authors will appreciate it if you give it a gander, and let them know.

Re:The Sound of Silence

[runlvl0]

I know windows XP is supposed to have a firewall, but for the life of me I can't find it.

Just in case you mean it (and I missed the joke):
Start -> Setting -> Control Panel -> Network Connections, right-click on the network connection that you want to "firewall", select Properties, then on the third tab, Advanced, select the check box for Protect my computer and network by limiting or preventing access to this computer from the Internet.

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Re:My firewall sounds like the wind

[why-is-it]

BlackICE, the premier software firewall

You must be joking. Nobody uses BlackICE to protect large corporate networks.

Re:That's great, but...

[nicolas.e]

for those who don't get the joke.