[148740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Argus: a hijacking alarm system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yang Xiang)
Sat Jan 21 04:09:52 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAArzuotGagYYRBNTOV6PpctDgkF2MvtPj2rwkazGC8XFOAknCA@mail.gmail.com>
From: Yang Xiang <xiangy08@csnet1.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:07:51 +0800
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
2012/1/21 Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:45 PM, RijilV <rijilv@riji.lv> wrote:
> >> A suggestion: pick a different name. There's already a network tool
> >> named Argus (it's been around for years): http://www.qosient.com/argus/
> >>
> >> I suggest using the name of a different Wishbone Ash album: "Bona
> Fide". ;-)
>
> > Ha, there are already two with the name Argus:
> > http://argus.tcp4me.com/
>
> Argus being a many eyed dog from greek myth .. no surprise a lot of
> tools that do this kind of thing have the very same name.
>
> Call it panopticon maybe? [nastier connotations - originally a prison
> design by jeremy bentham where a warder sitting in the center could
> see everything around him]
>
sounds cool :)
panopticon
>
> --srs
>
>
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Yang Xiang. Ph.D candidate. Tsinghua University
Argus: argus.csnet1.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn
