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

[Greger V. Teigre]

They indeed do :-) And the mistake was not a big one, it's just that 
people on the mailing lists have very limited knowledge of everything 
outside the mailing lists...
I sincerely hope to see VSP as open-source, it seems that it has a 
plugin-interface that I believe people would like to hack on... ;-)
g-)

Tudor Golubenco wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>
>
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