This may allow detection of most kiddies with their DDoS and fries kit downloaded from McHacker, but you can easily avoid detection by using onion routing
See www.onion-router.net for information, although they have just taken their net offline as they have concluded their experiment.
To quote:
The Onion Routing research project is building an Internet-based system that strongly resists traffic analysis, eavesdropping, and other attacks both by outsiders (e.g. Internet routers) and insiders (Onion Routers themselves). It prevents the transport medium from knowing who is communicating with whom -- the network knows only that communication is taking place. In addition, the content of the communication is hidden from eavesdroppers up to the point where the traffic leaves the OR network.
Actually I got my Indy for 250 UKP, thats about 400 of your Earth dollars.
100MHz no l2 cache though. So i got the 24-bit gfx card and the 200MHz 1Mb l2 cache upgrades for a further 200 odd quid.. making a total of approx 800 USD.
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It would automatically retroactivly affect all software out there that used reverse engineering in the past.
This actually has a far greater impact than you could possibly imagine. The only reason why all x86 machines are hardware compatible is that they all have a BIOS that functions in the same way.
The first BIOS was written by IBM. The first people to emulate the functions of the BIOS and create the first IMB PC clone were Compaq. All PC BIOS'es rely on the fact that they are reverse engineered clones of the original IBM BIOS.
So, depending on the length of the Statute of Limitations on this, it could be that it is now illegal to use any non-IBM PC!
Ho hum, just another example of the stupidity of the legaslative bodies around the world.
I think some people might be getting a touch confused here, so I'll try and restate the need.
Basically with a Sun machine, you can attach a console to the back and watch the boot process, right from the point where the PROM detects no keyboard present and redirects the console to the serial line. It doesn't matter whether or not you have a video card present for the machine to boot.
On a PC, depending on the BIOS you can or can't get away without a keyboard being present. However none (with the exception of the one I'm going to mention) will let you boot without a video card present. If the card is there then that is what will be your console.
Now people were talking about using the SERIAL CONSOLE directive, or just running getty on the serial line, to redirect it and thats fine, provided the machine boots that far. With a Sun, if it fails to boot because of a problem with the hardware, or misconfiguration in the PROM (BIOS equivalent) you still have console access. On a PC you don't.
Now Phoenix have just brought out a new BIOS which will let you redirect the console to a serial line in the same way as a Sun does, i.e. you can get to the BIOS from the serial line, edit parameters and force a powercycle. This is an immensely cool idea. In the ISP I worked in (one of the largest in Europe) we used vast amounts of PC based UNIX machines (OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD) none of which we could do this with.
Firstly, you should probably upgrade to Cricket, as it is more flexible, easier to manage and under active development unlike MRTG. ( http://www.munitions.com/~jra/cricket/ )
As one of the previous posters mentioned, MRTG does indeed use SNMP to get its data. Now I'm assuming you use the CMU SNMP agent (or the UCD.. doesn't matter). You probably only have the MIB-II SNMP definitions supported by your agent.
What is probably happening is that your agent doesn't know anything about the data you are trying to collect. Now with Cricket or MRTG you can configure it to collect from a script. So you will probably need to write a script to ssh (or rsh) into the machine you are monitoring, collect the data and print it to stdout. Then it will happily graph that for you.
I am not surprised at this reaction from the CEO of SCO, lets face it SCO have more to lose than Microsoft with the ascension of Linux.
Look at the market that SCO aim at, low end x86 based UNIX servers. Things like branch servers etc. This is exactly the market that Linux has been penetrating so well recently.
The reason SCO are reacting so violently is that this is their/only/ market. Every Linux box installed here is almost certainly one SCO license and hence revenue taken away from SCO.
It really isn't a surprise that SCO would want to spread more FUD about Linux than even Microsoft. After all, Microsoft have a load of other revenue streams that aren't affected by Linux whereas SCO hasn't
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So are they going to bring out a William Gibson custom model so I can play some raucous cyberpunk?
"Lets DDOS the Landlord"
-- joe.
This may allow detection of most kiddies with their DDoS and fries kit downloaded from McHacker, but you can easily avoid detection by using onion routing
See www.onion-router.net for information, although they have just taken their net offline as they have concluded their experiment.
To quote:
The Onion Routing research project is building an Internet-based system that strongly resists traffic analysis, eavesdropping, and other attacks both by outsiders (e.g. Internet routers) and insiders (Onion Routers themselves). It prevents the transport medium from knowing who is communicating with whom -- the network knows only that communication is taking place. In addition, the content of the communication is hidden from eavesdroppers up to the point where the traffic leaves the OR network.
Cheers!
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I'll be interested to see
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a) what OS this will run and
b) who will write software to take advantage of this, very specialised, hardware
The hardware alone looks good, but to have a successful product you need all three.
I do want one though
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I hate to say it, but Netscape are far more guilty of standards non-compliance than Micro$oft with I.E.
They came up with frames, layers et al and got web monkeys to use them to force them through standards and lock out other browsers.
Note please I am not defending microsoft, that would make me feel dirty.
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Actually I got my Indy for 250 UKP, thats about 400 of your Earth dollars.
100MHz no l2 cache though. So i got the 24-bit gfx card and the 200MHz 1Mb l2 cache upgrades for a further 200 odd quid.. making a total of approx 800 USD.
Makes a superb workstation..
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It would automatically retroactivly affect all software out there that used reverse engineering in the past.
This actually has a far greater impact than you could possibly imagine. The only reason why all x86 machines are hardware compatible is that they all have a BIOS that functions in the same way.
The first BIOS was written by IBM. The first people to emulate the functions of the BIOS and create the first IMB PC clone were Compaq. All PC BIOS'es rely on the fact that they are reverse engineered clones of the original IBM BIOS.
So, depending on the length of the Statute of Limitations on this, it could be that it is now illegal to use any non-IBM PC!
Ho hum, just another example of the stupidity of the legaslative bodies around the world.
Joe
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I think some people might be getting a touch confused here, so I'll try and restate the need.
Basically with a Sun machine, you can attach a console to the back and watch the boot process, right from the point where the PROM detects no keyboard present and redirects the console to the serial line. It doesn't matter whether or not you have a video card present for the machine to boot.
On a PC, depending on the BIOS you can or can't get away without a keyboard being present. However none (with the exception of the one I'm going to mention) will let you boot without a video card present. If the card is there then that is what will be your console.
Now people were talking about using the SERIAL CONSOLE directive, or just running getty on the serial line, to redirect it and thats fine, provided the machine boots that far. With a Sun, if it fails to boot because of a problem with the hardware, or misconfiguration in the PROM (BIOS equivalent) you still have console access. On a PC you don't.
Now Phoenix have just brought out a new BIOS which will let you redirect the console to a serial line in the same way as a Sun does, i.e. you can get to the BIOS from the serial line, edit parameters and force a powercycle. This is an immensely cool idea. In the ISP I worked in (one of the largest in Europe) we used vast amounts of PC based UNIX machines (OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD) none of which we could do this with.
Check out http://www.phoenix.com/platform/ser verbios.html and scroll down to the bit about Serial Remote Console.
HTH HAND
Joe
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This to me seems to be bad journalism. If you look at http://www.transvirtual.com/downloads.ht ml you will see that they don't even supply a Windross version.
Also if you read the article you can see that the journalist was very confused:
Java, which lets electronic devices communicate even if they run on different software,
Ho hum. probably a staff journalists first foray into the IT field.
Joe
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Firstly, you should probably upgrade to Cricket, as it is more flexible, easier to manage and under active development unlike MRTG.
( http://www.munitions.com/~jra/cricket/ )
As one of the previous posters mentioned, MRTG does indeed use SNMP to get its data. Now I'm assuming you use the CMU SNMP agent (or the UCD.. doesn't matter). You probably only have the MIB-II SNMP definitions supported by your agent.
What is probably happening is that your agent doesn't know anything about the data you are trying to collect. Now with Cricket or MRTG you can configure it to collect from a script. So you will probably need to write a script to ssh (or rsh) into the machine you are monitoring, collect the data and print it to stdout. Then it will happily graph that for you.
HTH HAND.
Joe
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I am not surprised at this reaction from the CEO of SCO, lets face it SCO have more to lose than Microsoft with the ascension of Linux.
/only/ market. Every Linux box installed here is almost certainly one SCO license and hence revenue taken away from SCO.
Look at the market that SCO aim at, low end x86 based UNIX servers. Things like branch servers etc. This is exactly the market that Linux has been penetrating so well recently.
The reason SCO are reacting so violently is that this is their
It really isn't a surprise that SCO would want to spread more FUD about Linux than even Microsoft. After all, Microsoft have a load of other revenue streams that aren't affected by Linux whereas SCO hasn't
Joe_90
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Well, its not helped by the fact that they announced their tastes on their website.
(It was formally at http://www.trenchcoat.org/ but the InterNIC quickly pulled their records, you can still get it at http://165.90.187.70/ )
Joe_90
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