Hi List,
First, a quick intro. My name is Vivek and I run a startup called
Unleash Networks. We make tools for network & security analysis. I
attended the June meeting of ILUGC , but was unable to attend the July
meeting (even though I badly wanted to hear the Debian packaging talk).
I hope to meet many of you personally the next time.
I recently started an open source project called Trisul. It is an GPLv3
open source tool targeted at network and security administrators. Trisul
meters network traffic usage as well as stores raw traffic for forensic
analysis. The metered data goes into a SQLITE3 database and the raw
traffic goes into a ring of files. You can then use Trisul to
investigate incidents or drilldown into network usage. You can ask
questions like "Which IPs contributed to the ICMP flood at 5AM
yesterday". You can even reconstruct traffic "What files did IP x.x.x.x
transfer between 10 and 11 AM two days back".
Trisul has two main components :
1. The backend which is C++ (currently tested on Ubuntu/Fedora)
2. The web interface (called Web-Trisul) which is a Ruby on Rails
application.
I wanted to share this with the list because:
1. This is a great opportunity for interested students to get involved
with an open source project.
2. There is plenty of learning opportunity starting from using autoconf,
to coding, to packaging.
3. The ruby on rails app is pretty nifty, this is a chance to work on it
even more and enhance your skills.
4. Linux based companies can try out the tool and build a support based
business out of it.
5. Network admins who are running tools like Snort, ntop, can also try
this out and help build the feature set.
6. I am based in Chennai - therefore accessibility is easy. I would
like to get involved with some of the others in building more expertise
in Chennai in Linux development / packaging.
Without further ado :
The Project is at http://www.unleashnetworks.com/trisul/doku.php
The Freshmeat announcement is at
http://freshmeat.net/projects/trisul/?branch_id=75172&release_id=281386
If anyone is interested in either joining, testing, commenting about
this project. Feel free to email me.
Thanks for listening,
Regards,
Vivek
