>   >   >    Brad J. Tarratt, N8VI

Brad is the system administrator of Monolith, the main computer of the rfc791.ORG network. He maintains all the user software on this system, performs security updates, designs the web pages, and monitors the logs for malicious activity. Brad has also designed several of the custom applications running on rfc791.ORG's machines in C, C++, Perl, PHP and Bourne shell scripting, including three IP packet analyzer programs which he wrote from scratch for intrusion detection and network troubleshooting, and also to further his understanding of the makeup of TCP/IP traffic. Brad has designed several CGI utility programs for the rfc791.ORG web site, two portscanners for security assessment, and a handful of programs for monitoring and logging system activity and alerting of system log anomalies. Brad has also designed a custom CGI bulletin board system for rfc791.ORG affiliate kinghippo.net. Brad administers the web, dns, smtp, imap, pop3, ssh, telnet, ftp, samba, dhcp, and nfs servers plus the PF SPI firewall software on rfc791.ORG.

Brad is a shameless promoter of the Unix operating system, and spends a lot of his free time raising awareness. His latest attempt at mass unix awareness can be found here.

Brad has recently discovered a profound fascination with the hobby of amateur radio, and has worked his way up, starting in January 2004, to an Amateur Extra class licence in April 2004. He intends to experiment with combining his programming hobby with ham radio, possibly by inventing a new digital mode (means for computers to communicate via radio) possibly using the Goertzel algorithm he recently learned.

Brad currently works alongside his good friend Ben at a local publication, for whom he designs the web site and administers the in-site web server. For a copy of Brad's resume, email btarratt at R F C seven ninety one dot org.