2009年3月30日 星期一

Howto block DDOS attacks on Ubuntu

Howto block DDOS attacks on Ubuntu - this ariticle shows the usage of PASD .

What is PSAD ? quoted from its home page:
"psad is a collection of three lightweight system daemons (two main daemons and one helper daemon) that run on Linux machines and analyze iptables log messages to detect port scans and other suspicious traffic. A typical deployment is to run psad on the iptables firewall where it has the fastest access to log data. "

Other tools from the same host:
fwknop - Single Packet Authorization and Port Knocking.

fwsnort - Application Layer IDS/IPS with iptables.

2009年3月9日 星期一

shared library in AIX 5L

Shared library memory footprints on AIX 5L is a good start to understand the shared-library in AIX 5.

trace system calls in aix

follow this, for aix, there are other methods.

1. truss (aix 5L)
2. sctrace (other vendor)
3. ltrace
4. trace (or syscalls(5))

2008年12月16日 星期二

build 64bit version of openssl

HPUX IA64 - I choose method 2:
change in main Makefile definitions to:

SHARED_LDFLAGS=-mlp64 -shared -nodefaultlibs
EX_LIBS= -ldl -lgcc

and run make again.

2008年12月10日 星期三

sniffer

Sniffer in wikipedia
A Quick Intro to Sniffers - provide links to other sniffer information.