Trisul – Sourceforge and Google Code setup

Project Hosting

Trisul is a new open source project that is targeted at security analysts. I set up both Google Code and Sourceforge project sites. As much as I like SF, its performance leaves a lot to be desired. It also loads a lot of external content which adds to its load time. I will use the issue tracker and download link on Google Code. Perhaps as the project matures, we can revisit Sourceforge.

Blog

I also created a wordpress blog called trisul.wordpress.com

Domain

I purchased the domain trisul.org. Eventually, the project will move there. We probably need a VPS if we want to host a demo of Web Trisul (the Ruby on Rails web frontend to the network metering data)

Todo List

Just playing with some options here. I quickly checked out tadalist and todoist. I could not find an easy way to publicly share list items on todoist, so I chose tadalist. The public tasks page is here

New code

The first release on sourceforge (0.4.116) was an embarassing mess. This was due to my unfamiliarity with autoconf and friends. I had just zipped up the source directory as a tarball instead of “make distcheck”. The new release takes care of that.

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Some questions people ask me about Trisul. I will try to answer them in the next blog post.

1) Is this project too ambitious ? Can one system integrate traffic monitoring, raw data recording, session tracking, and forensics ?

2) When good stuff like SANCP, Time Machine, ntop, argus, are already available – what beverage is Trisul bringing to the party ?

3) Trisul is at best a single “sensor” or “observation point”, how does it plan to integrate into a centralized console like SGUIL etc.

 

Author: Vivek Rajagopalan

Vivek Rajagopalan is the a lead developer for Trisul Network Analytics. Prior products were Unsniff Network Analyzer and Unbrowse SNMP. Loves working with packets , very high speed networks, and helping track down the bad guys on the internet. View all posts by Vivek Rajagopalan