Why Tcpreplay went GPL

Posted by Synfinatic on August 22, 2010 at 9:14 am in tcpreplay.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while and honestly pretty made up my mind months ago, but I finally go enough determination to edit almost all the files in the trunk source tree and change the license from the 3 clause BSD to GPLv3.

There’s actually a number of reasons for the change and I wanted to share the ones that were most important to me. I don’t expect everyone to like the decision, but probably most won’t care since it doesn’t really impact them. But sometimes people get all bent out of shape when a project that has been around as long as Tcpreplay (10 years? Damn, where did the time go?) changes its license so I wanted to give my side of it. The change doesn’t mean I don’t like the BSD license anymore, just that I now feel the GPL is more appropriate for the Tcpreplay Suite.


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tcpreplay 3.4.5 beta1 released

Posted by Synfinatic on August 15, 2010 at 4:30 pm in tcpreplay.

Just a quick heads up for everyone, I’ve released tcpreplay 3.4.5
beta1beta2: http://synfin.net/tcpreplay-3.4.5beta2.tar.gz

I wasn’t originally planning on doing a beta for 3.4.5, but due to
feature creep it’s taking more time then I thought. Now that I’m done
racing for the summer, hopefully I’ll have more time to fix the
remaining open bugs & enhancements before the fall. It’s my goal that
3.4.5 will be the final 3.x release, with future enhancements being
placed in the 4.0 branch- it’s become too much of a PITA to keep
merging code between the two branches since 4.0 is really nothing like
3.x.

Anyways, this release concentrates on features & bugs users requested
or found. Special thanks goes out to Dmitriy Gerasimov who
submitted a patch for Linux …


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Worse to Better: AFM 2010 Round 6

Posted by Synfinatic on August 3, 2010 at 1:15 am in Crackdays & Racing.

I didn’t do race reports for the last two rounds at Thunderhill because frankly I just wanted to forget them. Even though I put in personal best times at round 4, dropping 4 seconds from last year, I was disappointed with my results where anything but top novice in 650P just isn’t good enough. But then round 5 was just a complete disaster- I never made it out on track due to an engine failure. I thought the noise from my engine was a cam-chain issue (which I thought was fixed Friday night at the track), but the ride to the hot-pits was enough to dissuade me of that notion and so I took it to BRG Racing. KC listened to my description and then the bike and with a long face told me to just push it into his truck.


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AFM 2010 Round 3

Posted by Synfinatic on May 29, 2010 at 6:06 pm in Crackdays & Racing.

Rounds 1 & 2 were a bit more difficult then I was hoping for so I was really looking forward to round 3 and a change of luck. That almost didn’t happen as I crashed on cold tires during a Keigwins track day just a week before the race. I escaped without a bruise thanks to my Helimot leathers, but the bike took quite a bit of damage and it was a big rush to get everything squared away in time for the weekend. A couple of long nights working on the bike and lots of help from BRG Racing and I was good to go just in time.

Friday evening Eric and I had …


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The only constant is change

Posted by Synfinatic on March 26, 2010 at 5:05 pm in Life.

I keep meaning to do a post on this, but I keep on putting it off for various reasons. But long story short, I’ve left Mu Dynamics back in February after almost 5 years with the company.


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It’s how you finish that matters

Posted by Synfinatic on October 1, 2009 at 11:41 pm in Crackdays & Racing.

This being my very first year racing, I started this year with a simple goal- finish in the top 50% in 650 Production. I honestly didn’t know how realistic that would be- how many people would run in the class and how fast would they be? The good news was that after 6 rounds, I had points in 3 races (two DNS’s due to mechanicals and skipping the first round at Buttonwillow) which put me in the top 50% and with a two point lead for top novice in class. The bad news was that my motor was toast and I didn’t have the money/time to fix it before the last round.


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A dark cloud

Posted by Synfinatic on August 23, 2009 at 2:07 pm in Crackdays & Racing.

So a couple of days ago a dark cloud started following me- literally (on twitter). Why? Well probably because my race bike’s motor just got diagnosed with TCMS (Ton of Crap in Motor Syndrome). At this stage of the game, it would normally be game over- my season finished. Kaput. Done. Over.


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Over before it started

Posted by Synfinatic on August 12, 2009 at 12:28 pm in Crackdays & Racing.

I never like waking up early in the morning and going to Sears Point (Infineon) Raceway means I’m up at 4:30am on Friday. Ugh. Eric and I climbed into the truck and headed out on the road and got to the track just before 7am. We had plenty of time to unload the truck, hit registration and riders meeting and get a new rear tire from Chris at CT Racing/Pirelli.


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From chaos to beauty

Posted by Synfinatic on July 6, 2009 at 10:23 pm in Life.

So we’ve successfully survived our first week of the remodel. I’ve posted some pictures up on my gallery and hope to make regular weekly updates to chronicle the entire process.


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Baby Steps

Posted by Synfinatic on June 16, 2009 at 12:39 am in Crackdays & Racing.

Another AFM round down, 3 more to go. I’m happy to report I came out relatively unscathed (a poked thumb and burnt finger due to playing unsafely with safety wire (oh the irony) and my left big toe hurts like hell from banging in my down shifts… time to finally get new boots I think. My muscles ache from not going to the gym in months, but my back which has been giving me problems lately feels great. With the important stuff out of the way, here’s how things went:


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