Tag: ipx

Linux 2.4.20, Clockspeed, Firestorm IPX and Macrostupid Coldfusion

Upgraded to Linux 2.4.0 with a few patches such as Gianni’s ECSC security patches, FreeS/WAN IPSEC, CPUFreq and more. Now I’m losing time again on my Dell Inspiron 8200. Dan Bernstein’s Clockspeed isn’t helping; I don’t think it’s meant for drift such as this (caused my frequency scaling I think).

I have also been putting some time into the IPX support in Firestorm I originally started. I’ve fixed a couple of things Gianni broke during his clean-up, and have begun work on a matcher. This adds support for IPX in snort signatures, which is kinda cute.

Having lots of trouble getting Coldfusion “MX”(tm) to work on Linux for a client. It is invariably unstable and crashes thousands of times a second (see diary: Nov 25 2002). Macromedia want to charge us $500 to report this. Apparently we’ll get our money back if it is confirmed as a genuine bug. We’re considering billing for the bug hunting we’re doing for them instead. With the tens of thousands of SIG4 and SIG11 crashes we’d be quids in charging per bug. Now if only an open-source project such as PHP existed.

Websense WISP and IPX updates

Gianni, Matt and I spent a little time poking around at the Websense WISP protocol to see how likely it would be to get Squid working with it. We observered a Cisco PIX communicating with a Websense service running Linux. It seems pretty easy (which was strange as we’ve heard to the contrary from Websense themselves). Gianni has knocked up a tool that can query a Websense server with a url to see if it is blocked. If we need it we’ll build a squid redirector. (see http://www.scaramanga.co.uk )

New patch for IPX support on Firestorm. Fixes a few lame bugs and possible remote DoSs Gianni pointed out to me. Also improved the SAP support a little.