[Serusers] Re: [Serdev] SIP Security and Monitoring tool running on iptel.org

[Greger V. Teigre]

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:
>
> http://fly.iptel.org/vsp/
>
> 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
>
>