From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 22 01:26:50 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CFCA58A for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:26:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oa0-f45.google.com (mail-oa0-f45.google.com [209.85.219.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE5C788 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:26:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id o6so3869095oag.18 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:26:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=FU49avgYykf6Lfc7f4P9dr5/Njo5VnKSO5xSeZQ0HDg=; b=NwzuB98jU1Ri1Cv8GCWTf0+jl6w8g4HJKi7GWeQqNIvXO6RWHJ0cc3PnprMMYfgrFy XKKpNMOxQ1ZwzJSKh+iH75RP3LNBdcByYY3LM9cVRgWAsYMk/dkt7pceyQGKDjqxZ6W5 gpmmVi+tpdw1M/d3mpHgtIBSjffZ1FhNIz61g4oAvKm/hl07M7UoW1scxaOjiF4p4dZF fFE5RFFIbJDIq7uCD/dlMARr28M8teF7XXq7xAVarMa9vKm7E/on2mLaUN9H5NyufNma mBcjE4tBjXRt1Hc3EhsgJKMMCto8N6PZRsiBBlWtNU/cV7l/+1TmGON3C7LMTMPNcA1V 0eIg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.22.69 with SMTP id b5mr8767553oef.38.1363915609513; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:26:49 -0700 (PDT) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.76.33.7 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:26:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:26:49 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: oA8S8cKcLbGscbTtDOJmlJXiTsE Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: net-mgmt/argus-monitor From: Kevin Oberman To: Carter Bullard Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:26:50 -0000 On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Carter Bullard wrote: > Gentle people, > Please be aware that this software has " stolen " its name from Carnegie = Mellon University's and QoSient, LLC's open source network monitor, Argus. = http://qosient.com/argus. The original argus, first developed in 1988 and r= eleased as open source in1993, is an advanced network flow monitor, discuss= ed in the IETF, and the US NIST, used by 10,000's of sites for network perf= ormance and security monitoring, is referenced in 100's of academic journal= s. It is used by many Gov'ts, Institutions and Corporations, and is in the= top 100 security tools used in the internet (sectools.org). > > Thank you for your consideration, > > Carter > > Carter Bullard > CEO/President > QoSient, LLC > 150 E 57th Street Suite 12D > New York, New York 10022 > > +1 212 588-9133 Phone > +1 212 588-9134 Fax While the CMU Argus goes back to 1998, the one in the ports tree as "argus-monitor" is somewhat older, having originated in 1996. It is also an open source tool and, as such, the name "Argus" is a fairly obvious one. I worked with the Argus Security Monitor, a physical security management software package at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory back in the 1980s, so the use of the Argus name for security software pre-dates both of these projects. The LLNL Argus was used by a number of government facilities and may well still be in use. So, while the CMU developed Argus may be very popular, it is quite unlikely that the name was "stolen" by either project and, since the other Argus is older, it seems the CMU Argus could be the only one to steal the name. I might also mention that an Argus prefix highjack monitor also exists. It was developed in China. I first heard of the one FreeBSD lists as "argus-monitor" back at a North American Network Operators meeting a great many years ago and it is also quite popular in the networking community. I suspect that both may be counted in the survey du to the unfortunate name collision. N.B. I have no involvement with either Argus and both are in the FreeBSD ports. The CMU developed one is net-mgmt/argus3. I am also not involved with the FreeBSD ports other than as a user and volunteer. --=20 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com