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Libnet… dead?Posted by Synfinatic on December 19, 2006 at 9:29 pm in tcpreplay.Just got an email from Freshmeat saying that they’ve de-listed the libnet library from their database. Sure enough, www.packetfactory.net is offline. Anyways, I’ve emailed Mike to see what’s going on. Until then I’ve uploaded my last copy of the source code to here: libnet-1.1.3-RC-01.tar.gz UPDATE: The email to Mike bounced and the libnet mailing list has been basically dead for over a year. Starting to smell like abandon-ware. Also, I could of sworn libnet-ng had an actual web page, but looks like that was taken offline or I was horribly confused.
When UPS’s failPosted by Synfinatic on December 15, 2006 at 11:53 am in It's Funny, Life.Yes, synfin.net was offline for about 8-1/2 hours due to my UPS failing. Oh the irony! Not sure why it’s dead, but it won’t even supply power when plugged into AC. So, everything hooked up to my UPS (my firewall and server) went offline just after midnight. Anyways, everything is back up… guess I know what to spend my Fry’s gift certificate on!
BrazilPosted by Synfinatic on December 14, 2006 at 1:07 pm in Cool, Politics.So earlier this week I couldn’t sleep, so I read email and watched the movie Brazil. I didn’t know much about the movie before seeing it, other then it being an Orwellian look at the future and was considered to be a really good movie. Brazil didn’t disappoint. The special effects were that of an art student film, but visually stunning never the less. What I found most interesting was how many parallels I found in todays world with the film. Clearly there is some strong social/political commentary in Brazil, specifically dealing with how the government’s use of information and of media leads to controlling it’s citizens. Additionally how people are easily manipulated with consumerism. One …
RIAA PetitionsPosted by Synfinatic on December 10, 2006 at 6:00 pm in Politics, Tech.Currently there are two petitions going on with regards to the RIAA: First the EFF is asking people to sign a petition to be sent to Congress to ask them to do something about the RIAA’s heavy handed tactics towards children, parents and the elderly. The second, is the RIAA petitioning some federal judges to reduce the royalty payments they make to artists. Apparently, while they’re filing lawsuits against 12 year olds for stealing Brittney Spears from file sharing sites, the RIAA wants to lower Brittney’s royalty payments for legal downloads. While I guess “something is better then nothing”, it sure seems rather hypocritical don’t ya think?
Treating users vaguelyPosted by Synfinatic on at 10:41 am in Rant, Tech.So last night I’m playing with iDVD to make well, a DVD. So, long story short, you can choose to format your DVD for 4:3 or 16:9. I wish there was a way to gracefully support both, but that’s another rant. Anyways… so there’s this feature to show you the “safe area”, which is the area of the screen which is most likely to actually be displayed on someone’s TV; apparently iDVD isn’t a WYSIWYG tool. Now some key things about safe area this: No explaination why an NTSC formatted DVD on an NTSC screen won’t show the whole thing.
libpcap is brokenPosted by Synfinatic on December 4, 2006 at 10:48 pm in tcpreplay.So one of the tcpreplay users has pointed out that it sometimes it doesn’t send the entire packet. I thought this was very odd since tcpreplay is actually quite simple relatively speaking so there’s not much room for bugs like this to sneak in. After some research I figured out the problem was a broken pcap capture file. Specifically: Maximum stored packet size per file (snaplen) The issue becomes when the snaplen is less then the caplen. This shouldn’t happen, but it may due to bugs in code. The result is that the libpcap library lies and returns the …
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