[Gllug] Linux projects involvement

Walid Shaari ws at melinux.com
Tue Jul 23 21:15:51 UTC 2002


On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 21:57, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:09:26PM +0100, Alex wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am considering getting involved in an open source project which
> > a) interests me enough
> > b) needs someone with my skills( c/c++, networking protocols, comms, 
> > real-time, drivers...)
> > c) possibly involving some local developers
> > 
> > Does anyone know of any sourceforge or similar interesting project in 
> > need of help?
> 
> I think your best bet is to look at the open source tools you use
> regularly and see which of them a) match your skillset and b) have
> features you feel could be improved or lack features you need.  You are
> far more likely to have useful ideas to contribute.  Even if your
> involvement doesn't last beyond a few bugfixes, it's a way of dipping
> your toe in.

On that note, What do gllugers use if any for intrusion detection ?
What things would you like to see enhanced in snort for example?

as I am thinking with playing with snort a bit, to learn more about
libpcap, and any related stuff.

Walid


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