OSS sit-rep

Posted by Synfinatic on October 5, 2008 at 4:42 pm in Code.

I figured I’d write a quick situation report on the three open source projects I’m involved with:

Tcpreplay Pretty much in total maintenance mode right now. I’m more then happy to help users and fix any bugs which people report, but I’m not working on any new features right now.
OpenPacket Looks like OpenPacket is in the process of being restarted and is going to move from Ruby on Rails to PHP. My last experience with PHP (about 7 years ago) was enough to make me swear it off and I’m just not interested in re-learning it again. Hence, I suspect my role will be limited to providing suggestions for the team.
Cabernet Due to …

Tags: Cabernet, openpacket, tcpreplay

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Building a Community

Posted by Synfinatic on July 13, 2008 at 10:05 am in Cabernet.

Since good things come in threes, I decided to write about what I think it takes to build a successful team to run a community website. If you haven’t yet already, be sure to read Part One and Part Two first.

Tags: Cabernet, community, openpacket, people, project management

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Turning Lechers into Contributors

Posted by Synfinatic on June 2, 2008 at 4:44 pm in tcpreplay.

Yesterday, I touched on some of the problems of creating a pcap repository. I explained how you need to market the site to vendors in order to solicit their contributions, but obviously you need more then corporate donations to make the site successful- you need individuals. So how do you motivate the masses?

Tags: openpacket, pcap

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If I build it, will they come?

Posted by Synfinatic on June 1, 2008 at 8:21 pm in tcpreplay.

I originally wrote this post back in March ‘06, but never posted it. Since then, I’ve been distracted with other tasks and openpacket.org has gone live. I’ve decided to post this now, because I’m tired of being lazy.

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So for about 4 years now (6 years as of 2008), I’ve had the idea of building a public repository where people can share pcap files. And I’m not the only one with this idea. And based on people asking for it regularly on various email lists, there seems to be demand for it. But will it work?

Tags: give and take, openpacket, pcap, tcpreplay

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openpacket.org is open for business

Posted by Synfinatic on April 9, 2008 at 12:52 pm in tcpreplay.

So the gang at openpacket.org finally has made it to 1.0 and the website is officially open for business. Honestly, I’m quite happy to see that someone has finally made something like this available- Tcpreplay users have been asking me where to get pcaps for a long time. I’ve been talking about doing something like this for years, but never had the time, so it’s great that someone else ran with it.

Tags: openpacket, pcap

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