Tcprecast! Episode #1

Posted by Synfinatic on January 26, 2009 at 6:54 pm in tcpreplay.

I’ve decided to get on the bus with all the cool kids and start my own video podcast called Tcprecast! I’m hoping to make Tcprecast! a how-to smorgasbord of all things Tcpreplay and then some.

Tags: podcast, tcprecast, tcpreplay

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Great idea, bad example

Posted by Synfinatic on January 23, 2009 at 3:29 pm in Cool, Tech.

So a buddy of mine at work (thanks Mike!) sent me this cool link about how to use real math to measure the complexity of user interfaces. I read the article (feel free to go read it now) and I loved the idea of quantitatively measuring the effort required to use a UI to determine how simple it is.

While I think Aza is on the right track, I’d like to point out how the devil is in the details and how hard it is to map theory to practice.

Tags: Cool, gui, math

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Tcpreplay 4.0 devel has started…

Posted by Synfinatic on January 21, 2009 at 12:03 pm in tcpreplay.

OK, I have to admit- priorities have really changed for the next major Tcpreplay release. You can thank (or I guess depending on your perspective, blame) Abdel Younes who has stepped up and offered to create a GUI for Tcpreplay. Honestly, if it wasn’t for Abdel I’m not really sure I’d even be working on the next major release.

Tags: api, gui, tcpreplay

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Stopping wordpress spam bots

Posted by Synfinatic on January 14, 2009 at 11:54 pm in Cool.

I was having a big problem for a few months with spam bots registering user accounts on my blog. Generally, the bots would register accounts assuming (incorrectly) my anti-spam software was more likely to let their comments if they came from a registered account. As you might imagine, this gets pretty annoying pretty quickly.

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Tcpreplay 3.4.0 is official!

Posted by Synfinatic on at 6:32 pm in tcpreplay.

I’m happy to announce that Tcpreplay 3.4.0 is out and posted to
Sourceforge. This is a pretty large release in terms of bugs fixed
and enhancements so here’s the changelog:

Tags: gui, release, tcpreplay

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Tcpreplay 3.4.0pre2 available

Posted by Synfinatic on January 8, 2009 at 3:37 pm in tcpreplay.

This is the second pre-release of 3.4.0 which I hope to have out in
the next week or two. There’s a lot of bug fixes and improvements
(mostly related to performance) and a few major changes. The biggest
change is completely removing libnet as an (optional) dependancy from
Tcpreplay. As any long-time subscriber to tcpreplay-users knows, I’ve
had a love-hate relationship with libnet, and I’m thrilled to replace
it with libdnet which seems to have fewer bugs and is still being
maintained. Libdnet is also required for fragroute support in
tcprewrite, so this should reduce the number of dependencies some
platforms have.

High-speed performance has also been improved via the new —pps-multi
option which allows sending multiple packets at a time without
sleeping in packets/sec mode.

Here’s the current changelog of what’s …

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2008: Tcpreplay

Posted by Synfinatic on January 1, 2009 at 2:09 pm in tcpreplay.

As I put 2008 behind me and look forward to 2009, I wanted to take a look at where Tcpreplay is and where it’s going.

This year there were 5 releases- most of which happened in the first half of the year. Between other projects like Cabernet, working at a startup, buying a new home and trying to sell our townhouse things definitely slowed down the last 6 months or so. But I think there’s also a sense at least on my part that Tcpreplay isn’t really lacking any major features; at least I’m not getting any real feature requests except for something like flowreplay- which I have no interest in working on.

Most of the …

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