The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly
meeting on Tuesday, April 10. The meeting topic for this month is
as follows:
pfSense Firewall
Adam Thompson will talk about (and demonstrate, if all goes
well) pfSense, a wholly UNIX-based network firewall and network
services appliance that can run on anything from embedded
devices up to the latest super-servers. pfSense is based on
FreeBSD, and thus uses the pf(4) packet filtering framework
from OpenBSD to do most of the heavy lifting. Supporting
multi-WAN, HTTP acceleration, DNS, DHCP, authentication, and
wireless NIC's among other features, it's an ideal system for
someone who wants a free, open-source firewall that's still
incredibly easy to manage.
April's RTFM will feature the date(1) command, presented by
Michael Doob.
The group holds its general meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of
every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and
August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a
MUUG member to attend.
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Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave.
(between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to
sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you
(in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15pm,
so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30pm. Don't be late, or you may
not get in. (But don't come too early either, since security may not
be there to let you in before 7:15 or so.) Non-members may be required
to show photo ID at the security desk.
Limited parking is available for free on the street, either on Ellice
Ave. or on some of the intersecting streets. Indoor parking is also
available nearby, at Portage Place, for $5.00 for the evening. Bicycle
parking is available in a bike rack under video surveillance located
behind the building on Webb Place.
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For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their
Web server:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/
Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your
workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf
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Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
