Pat Wilbur

ITL Project Page

Welcome to my ITL page. Here I will discuss the various projects I'm working on.

Gave a presentation during an ITL meeting discussing my project
Presented Port Knocking project at an Mathematical Association of America conference at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY (click here for more information)
Would like to install it on our hacked router - anyone involved in hacking it interested in helping?
Preparing to do some real testing over a harsher environment (the Internet) to see if our hypothesis that

Worked with Chris Peterman on discovering and preventing further misuse following a RDOS attack an attacker was using mirror to assist with.
Gave a presentation about RDOS and the specific attack that mirror was a part of at an ITL meeting
For more information about RDOS, please visit http://www.grc.com/dos/drdos.htm

Came up to Clarkson early to help labs move in, where we moved around and installed furniture and equipment, performed lots of planning, and ran a bit of network cable (not to mention climbing on ladders and doing difficult work a few times
Got things situated
Working on finishing a reliable, incremental backup model for cosi.clarkson.edu and other important servers
Implementing a redundant archive at www/projects/cosi space in case cosi.clarkson.edu vanishes someday along with our backups (and doing so similarly for ITL, VR, and Applied CS)
Fixing mirror.clarkson.edu
Fixed bandwidth issues with mirror
Fixed an issue with attackers using mirror for RDOS attacks on other hosts
Finishing the transition of mirror to new hardware
Working with the other "Admins" to hopefully get lab arrangement, networking, power, and servers all hooked up over winter break
Pulled 4 all-nighters just doing lab-related management things, not homework or personal projects