From: Reyk Floeter (reykopenbsd.org)
Date: Sat Aug 16 2008 - 10:22:24 CDT

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On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:58:05PM +0800, World of Open Source wrote:
> "DefCon produces the most hostile network environment in the world every
> year. The DefCon network has evolved with the event. What started out as a

I thought the CCC Congress in Berlin became the most hostile network
environment in the world ;). The major difference is that the CCCC
did not filter or record any data. Unfortunately, they also started
with the Aruba shit...

> casually constructed resource to provide access to the Internet and a venue
> for pranksters to attack has grown into a hardened network. A quad-core Xeon
> supports the network with openBSD as the firewall protecting a backbone link
> to (an estimated) 150 vlans, propagated to the public with 35 Aruba AP-70
> wireless access points and 30 ethernet connections to support the
> administration of the event. The AP-70s are maintained by a management
> switch. The AP-70s allow and monitor traffic and can triangulate the
> position of signals received. Since they are all propagating a signal from
> the management switch, traffic can be analyzed and recorded for the
> competitions."
>
> -woss-

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