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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:16:26 +0300
From: Georgi Geshev <root@...k-labs.exploits-bg.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: new soft: conntrack, ucarp

Hello,

In my humble opinion, this is an appropriate (enough) suggestion, especially
concerning the conntrack-tools.

Let me know if I should / may prepare the RPM package builds or it is
actually preferable that some code review is done first.

Regards,
Georgi

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd suggest to include into Owl 3 packages:
>
>
> 1) conntrack (http://conntrack-tools.netfilter.org/).
>
> "Program to modify the conntrack tables
>
>  conntrack is a userspace command line program targeted at system
>  administrators. It enables them to view and manage the in-kernel
>  connection tracking state table."
>
> It is a very usefull tool to debug and profile statefull firewall rules.
>
>
> 24 kb installed in Ubuntu.
>
>
> 2) conntrackd (the same tarball).
>
> "Connection tracking daemon
>
>  Conntrackd can replicate the status of the connections that are
>  currently being processed by your stateful firewall based on Linux.
>  Conntrackd can also run as statistics daemon."
>
> It can be used for HA firewall setups.  110 kb in Ubuntu.
>
> Both conntrack* require new library, libnfnetlink (14 kb installed in
> Ubuntu).
>
>
> 3) ucarp (http://www.ucarp.org/project/ucarp).
>
> "user-space replacement to VRRP -- automatic IP fail-over
>
>  UCARP allows a pair of hosts to share common virtual IP addresses in
>  order to provide automatic fail-over. It is a portable user-land
>  implementation of the secure and patent-free Common Address Redundancy
>  Protocol (CARP, OpenBSD's alternative to the VRRP).
>  .
>  Strong points of the CARP protocol are: very low overhead,
>  cryptographically signed messages, interoperability between different
>  operating systems and no need for any dedicated extra network link
>  between redundant hosts."
>
> 37 kb installed, needs only libpcap.  Originates in OpenBSD camp ;-)
>
>
> If it is not appropriate to include them into the Owl, it would be handy
> to have them in some secondary repository.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Vasiliy Kulikov
> http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing
> environments
>
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