Rejected!

Posted by Synfinatic on March 18, 2009 at 11:14 am in /dev/random, tcpreplay.

As I expected, Tcpreplay was not accepted for the Google Summer of Code. Most likely because compared to many of the other mentoring organization applicants, Tcpreplay is not able to accept many students- hence the overhead is too high.

Of course, if you are a student (or anyone else for that matter) and are interested in working on Tcpreplay and learn about networking, I’m always willing to help people get up to speed on the code and contribute.

Tags: GSoC, tcpreplay

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GSoC 2009

Posted by Synfinatic on March 12, 2009 at 10:49 pm in tcpreplay.

Well I decided to throw my hat into the ring for being a mentoring organization for the 2009 Google Summer of Code for Tcpreplay. Obviously Tcpreplay will be one of the smallest “organizations” to submit an application so I can’t say that I have high hopes of being accepted, but I figured it was worth a try.

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Tcpreast! – whoops!

Posted by Synfinatic on February 26, 2009 at 5:00 pm in tcpreplay.

Due to a slight miscommunication, the audio recording equipment I was using for the Tcprecast! Video Podcast is no longer in my possession. Until I’m able to source a new USB microphone (supporting OS X) and pop filter, there won’t be any more podcasts. :(

Tags: tcprecast, tcpreplay

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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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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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Tcpreplay 3.4.0 is official!

Posted by Synfinatic on January 14, 2009 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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I just can’t leave it alone…

Posted by Synfinatic on November 20, 2008 at 9:28 am in tcpreplay.

For some reason, probably due to a sever mental defect, I actually enjoy writing C code. Yes, there are plenty of other languages which have plenty of aspects which are better then C, but I just don’t find any of them as satisfying to actually write code in. Ruby comes the closest, but as languages go, it’s still a little wet behind the ears while C is mature. What does that mean? I’ve been working on tcpreplay again- even after I claimed I was putting it away for the foreseeable future.

Tags: C, cygwin, ruby, tcpreplay, windows

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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 …

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