Flying in the post-liquid bomb world

Posted by Synfinatic on August 14, 2006 at 10:16 pm in Rant.

So I had the missfortune of picking last thursday to fly on vacation. For those of you living under a rock, last thursday was when the news broke out that some terrorists were plotting to blow up planes using explosives in the form of liquids and/or gels.

The solution was obviously to stop anyone from flying in their carry-on any liquid, gel or simular substance such as chapstick. Apparently now, you can’t even have gel inserts in your shoes.

As someone in the security world, these planned attacks and our response are somewhat interesting to me. Anyways, a few observations:

Some people traveling really are living under a rock. One woman who was trying to go to Disneyland was …

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Help me help you.

Posted by Synfinatic on August 8, 2006 at 10:25 pm in Rant, tcpreplay.

So here’s the deal: I don’t charge a single cent for tcpreplay regardless if you’re using it for educational or commercial use. You can even embed tcpreplay in your product and sell it, I don’t care.

I don’t charge for the docs, man pages, or FAQ even though I spend quite a bit of time trying to keep the docs up to date, accurate and useful. I’m also more then happy to provide free technical support to anyone who emails the tcpreplay-users mailing list. Having people use the list means that the questions and answers are archived for future use and it gives other people a chance to help you out. If you only email …

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3.0.beta10 is out the door

Posted by Synfinatic on August 6, 2006 at 9:41 am in tcpreplay.

Yep, 3.0.beta10 is available here. So far, at least one person has compiled it successfully, so at least this release is already better then beta8. :)

Anyways, as stated in the release notes, this is the final beta release for 3.0. I’m planning on one release candidate which will have a working tcpbridge (which has been broken since moving all the editing code to libtcpedit) and then put out 3.0.0 shortly after that depending on any bugs people find.

Anyways, give it a try and let me know how it well works for you!

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Big changes in 3.0.beta10

Posted by Synfinatic on August 3, 2006 at 1:29 pm in tcpreplay.

Just a quick note to everyone paying attention that 3.0.beta10 is almost ready. Some rather significant changes since beta9:

Libnet is now completely optional. I’ve created an abstraction layer supporting BSD’s BPF, Linux’s PF_PACKET, libpcap’s pcap_inject() and libnet’s packet injection methods. So while you can still use libnet, in many cases you won’t need it which should hopefully make installation a lot easier for many people.

tcpprep and tcprewrite no longer need to run as root. tcpreplay still does for obvious reasons.

A new and improved packet timing method is available in tcpreplay. Those people needing more accurate inter-packet delays should be better served by this method.

tcprewrite now can skip rewriting broadcast/multicast IP and …

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Nework maintenance

Posted by Synfinatic on August 2, 2006 at 4:30 pm in News, tcpreplay.

According to Speakeasy:

On Wednesday night/Thursday morning, August 9th and August 10th 2006, we
will be performing scheduled maintenance on the Point of Presence (POP)
through which your Broadband connection is routed.

Maintenance will begin at 11:59 PM PDT on Wednesday night and end by
03:00 AM PDT on Thursday morning. While you will experience a service
disruption during this time, it is unlikely that your service outage
will extend through the entire time frame. Service interruptions
during a routine maintenance event like this often last only a few
minutes.

So expect synfin.net to go dark for a little while I guess…

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