NetMure: Poet's Project

NetMURE was the title of my B.Tech dissertation. We were required to present a proposal of the project the the Networks research group before beginning work on the project. I had conceived the idea of developing a concept called prisonwall, that reduces malicious traffic on the network. During my proposal presentation, I had recited this poem.

Netadmin came to me and said,
“Friend help me, or I’ll lose my bread,
There is some great flaw in the network,
and people think that I don’t work!

Network often clogs, traffic comes to halt,
People scorn me, say it’s all my fault,
When their infected systems are real problems,
Why am I the one to get all blames?

When I run tcpdump on some root shell,
Viruses loom this net into devil’s hell,
If on all cat fives worms shall haunt,
how will network carry what users want?

New worms come up with d-ports newer,
They put me down on port blocking fever,
New softwares start up with yet another port,
‘Allow it to go,’ rules the netadmin court.

I am fed up with managing the firewall,
To keep changing rules after someone’s call,
I dream of this net as robust and fine,
but when shall the reality and dream align?”

“My friend,” I said, “I have the cure,
Let me develop what I call NetMURE!”