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

[Tudor Golubenco]

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:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >   


-- 
Dipl. Ing. Tudor Golubenco
Software Engineer

iptego GmbH 
Am Borsigturm 40, 
13507 Berlin, Germany
http://www.iptego.de