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NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 3 March 2010 NYCBUG: Isaac Levy on pfSense


From: secretary
Subject: NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 3 March 2010 NYCBUG: Isaac Levy on pfSense
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:07:06 -0000

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 Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:33:54 -0500
 To: announce@lists.nycbug.org
 From: NYC*BUG Announcements <announce@lists.nycbug.org>
 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Wednesday March 3rd
 Reply-To: announce@lists.nycbug.org

 March 03, 2010, Wednesday

 PFSense II, Rocking The Datacenter

 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant
 http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php

 In 2006, ike gave an overview on PFSense and it`s mother project
 m0n0wall, which were new and exciting router platforms back then.

 Quote from that first talk, (4 years ago):
    "throw your Linksys/SoHo/WiFi router in the garbage where it belongs"
    http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10027

 Quote for this talk:
    "You might wanna` put your Sonicwall/Juniper/Cisco routers up on Ebay."

 pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD
 tailored for use as a firewall and router.  http://pfsense.org/

 pfSense has matured into a full-fledged routing platform which fits
 right in at the datacenter.  As all the big router vendors now tout
 fully browser-based administration- (over IOS, I2J, etc...) so the
 stigma of using pfSense in the enterprise is gone.

 Our speaker has been using pfSense in datacenter deployments for over 4
 years, and will be describing how pfSense was used to save and secure
 several "organically dysfunctional" corporate networks, and maintain
 business continuity.

 Throughout the talk, these points will be emphasized:
 - Deploys: "Performing an Oil Change at 80mph" (quoting Michael Lucas)
 - Corporate Office/Colo Life with pfSense
 - Quickly/Safely Training Junior/Senior Network Sysadmins on pfSense
 - Taking the Magic/Macho out of HA networking
 - Networking can be Reliable/Understood/Fun

 Half of this talk is a quick pfSense bootstrap:
 - What *is* pfSense? (A Terrific Routing Platform!)
 - Hardware (Embedded and Regular x86 Systems)
    - The reality of recycling servers, (Go Green! and other buzzwords)
 - Install, basic setup- focused on typical multi-zone networks

 The other half of the talk will go through the incredibly advanced tools
 and features that make pfSense an excellent platform for
 High-Availability and Security at the datacenter:

 - CARP, Physical Redundancy, (and living with HSRP/VRRP/GLBP
    from your ISP)
 - Fully Redundant Load Balancing, 2 common roles:
    - (inbound) Load Balancing to scale Web Servers
    - (outbound) Load Balancing for multi-wan redundant networking
 - "Deep Packet Inspection" and other infosec buzzwords, done the
    PF/BSD way

 - Missing your IOS shell?  pfSense gives you a UNIX Shell- infinite
    possibilities!
    - pfSense/embedded shell specifics, (read-only filesysem on CF?)
      - NanoBSD/implementation notes...
    - Using pf from the shell
      - interacting with system firewall/traffic-shaping/etc..
      - dancing a tango with the GUI
 - Syslog, SNMP, and all fixin`s
 - Config Management for Network Scaling/Sanity

 As Sr. Infrastructure Engineer at the emerging startup Proclivity 
 Systems, Isaac ".ike" Levy is obsessed with high-availability systems 
 and transparent failover, mostly because he likes to sleep a t night. 
 Standing on the shoulders of giants, his background includes partnering 
 to run a Virtual Server ISP before there was ever a cloud in the sky, as 
 well as having a long history hacking internet-facing applications on 
 UNIX systems.

 .ike has been a part of NYC*BUG since it was first launched in January 
 2004. He was a long-time member of the Lower East Side Mac Unix User 
 Group, and is still in denial that this group no longer exists. He has 
 spoken frequently on a number of topics at various venues, particularly 
 on the issue of FreeBSD`s jail (8).
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Distributed poC TINC:

Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
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