Create a passive network tap for your home network

In my home network, I have a passive tap sitting between my cable modem and my router, instead of spending tons of money, I made my own. They’re surprisingly simple to make, and also extremely simple to use.
Let’s start with the wiring, at a local electronics store, I purchased 4 RJ-45 wiring plugs, I probably [...]

Hex 1.0.3 released!

We just released Hex 1.0.3, the Chinese New Year release, although it’s closer to the Valentine’s day release. Congratulations to all the Hex developers for fixing bugs and adding features!
You can grab the iso here. [md5] [sha256]
Or, grab the iso from the mirror. [md5] [sha256]
Since Geek00l already covered a list of the most important changes [...]

Switching from fluxbox to wmii on Hex

Don’t get me wrong, I love fluxbox, I just enjoy experimenting with other window managers and decided I’d finally try the daunting wmii (turns out, not very daunting at all). So, here’s a quick rundown on getting wmii working on Hex 1.0.3BETA (this will work on pretty much any other Hex 1.* release as well). [...]

NSM-console version 0.2 release

I found out there is internet here, so I’m finally able to post some code changes I was working on while on the airplane.
Firstly, download the files here.
The static page for nsm-console is here.
I finally got around to releasing the next version of the nsm-console. This version incorporates a large amount of bug fixes and [...]

Packages to get svn working on Hex 1.0.*

Trying to run svn on Hex 1.0.* you get the following error:
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object “libaprutil-1.so.2″ not found, required by “svn”
As geek00l pointed out, this can be fixed by issuing the following command:
cd /usr/ports/devel/apr-svn/ && make install clean
Assuming you have a ports tree downloaded into hex, but what if you don’t have access to the ports [...]

First extra package available for Hex 1.0.2! (honeysnap-1.0.6.11)

The first addon packages are now available for Hex (version 1.0.1 or 1.0.2)! I have successfully created a FreeBSD port and a Hex package for the honeysnap project. You can find the files here (navi.eight7.org) until they are put into an official hex repository.
If you only want the port, download the honeysnap-1.0.6.11.tar.gz file (note that [...]

Joining the Hex Network Security Monitoring LiveCD project

Yep, that’s right, I’m going to be helping out with the Hex LiveCD project. I will hopefully be doing some development for some of the NSM tools and fixing bugs in the CD. In case you don’t know what Hex is, let me give you a little synopsis (from the Trac):
“HeX LiveCD is a Network [...]

Free shell account anyone?

For a time, I’m offering a free shell account to anyone who would like one on http://navi.eight7.org. Email me if you would like an account.
Details:

FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE
UltraSPARC IIe 650 Mhz processor (speeeeedy )
1GB of RAM
SSH login from anywhere that can get to navi.eight7.org:22
lighttpd w/fastcgi & SSL for web serving
Ajaxterm to access console login from http
78%+ [...]

An update on the Sun Blade 150

Well, I finally got around to finishing doing all the installs and setup on the Blade 150 I had laying around. In the end, since it only had 1gb of RAM and only 1 600 Mhz UltraSPARC II processor, I decided to go with FreeBSD instead of Solaris.
Initially, Solaris worked great serving up a webpage, [...]