FIST conferences are free and open events organized by the Open Information Systems Security Group to raise the level of information security awareness and to teach advanced security practices developed by OISSG. It is an effort to bring individual local talent and make the most of it within the IS security community. I will give a talk about OpenBSD packet filter using a high-availability approach through CARP and pfsync protocols.

I have writting an article about how to deploy a network-based firewall based on OpenBSD packet filter (pf) providing high-availability combining Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP) and state-table synchronization (pfsync). It describes a case study …