Our Next MeetingsThe next meeting will be held at Peter's Cafe in Millbrae. The meeting will be held on Thursday, December 11thth. at 7:00pm.Our Topic FreeBSD based network infrastructure (IP routers, firewalls, application proxies, network monitoring, logging, etc.) plays a large role in many networks. For many networks, software-based routing is sufficiently fast that the advantages in configurability, functionality, and price make it a viable alternative to dedicated hardware devices from major vendors. Particularly for networks which use emerging or otherwise rapidly changing protocols, the flexibility of a general purpose machine as router is often very useful. We will discuss various places where FreeBSD can be part of network infrastructure, benefits and disadvantages, and how best to implement several common types of functionality for maximum reliability and minimum cost. Our speakers are: Ryan Lackey is a security and network architect as well as an entrepreneur. He founded HavenCo, the world's first datahaven, and currently runs metacolo, a distributed datahaven successor. He has also worked extensively with cryptographic protocols and payment systems, open source software, and hardware tamper-resistant modules. Tom Sparks is a network engineer with expertise in backbone routing as well as high-volume server colocation. He is an experienced FreeBSD administrator and has built networks with a mix of cisco, Juniper, and FreeBSD equipment.
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