Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:26:49 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Carter Bullard <carter@qosient.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: net-mgmt/argus-monitor Message-ID: <CAN6yY1vkhK3cLGWnXq5JLEvG1OHpW6nacg7QEJZD-xn3yTkL0g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ECAB97E6-54AE-41AA-83EF-AAD31D766420@qosient.com> References: <ECAB97E6-54AE-41AA-83EF-AAD31D766420@qosient.com>
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Carter Bullard <carter@qosient.com> 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
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