Hi Greger,
Just wanted to say thanks for the appreciations and for the observation. I was aware of the difference between iptel.org and iptelorg, but my wording was indeed not best chosen. I was referring to Jiri, Nils and Jan. I guess they fit in both categories :-).
Tudor
Greger V. Teigre wrote:
Hi Tudor, First of all, let me point out a minor issue, but as there has been (and obvious still is) a general confusion about it, I feel a need to correct your reference to "iptel.org staff" (though, don't take this personally): There is no such thing as iptel.org staff. iptel.org refers to an open-source community with no paid staff, but with sponsors and lots of volunteers. However, you may refer to the company iptelorg.com (http://www.iptelorg.com), now a part of Tekelec Inc. iptelorg.com/Tekelec is a sponsor of iptel.org in both servers, Internet access, and development work. (And I also want to point out that the company Iptego is another of the important sponsors of iptel.org). iptelorg.com was (unfortunately) named at a point where the difference didn't seem important.
I find the VSP tool interesting and can clearly see its benefit. I have seen that others have commented on the tool not being open-source. I see the statistics for iptel.org free SIP service as interesting in itself and see no harm in Iptego as a sponsor offering a commercial tool to the community (and not much difference from other sponsor activities). Though, I don't think you should expect too much feedback from the community as long as it is not open-source ;-)
g-)
Tudor Golubenco wrote:
Hi SER users and devs,
During the past few months we, at Iptego, have been working on a security and monitoring application for SIP sites, one of the recurring subjects of the SER user meeting in Prague ;-). To be short, VSP is a network intrusion detection system, which can sniff the VoIP traffic, parse SIP messages and create alerts when something seems wrong.
As the project evolved, we have presented our work to the iptel.org staff and, together with them, decided to make the monitoring extension of VSP available to all public. So, if you're interested in real time statistics of the iptel.org SIP site, or in the repartition of User-Agents, you can create your own graphs here:
We have already received great feedback from the iptel.org guys and I hope to get even more from the rest of community.
Disclaimer: The project is BETA for now and the graphs haven't been verified yet. I wouldn't use them for anything important.
Cheers, Tudor Golubenco