Ruby: JBYCDMYS
So a co-worker sent me this link of “cool Ruby tricks“. After looking at them, I’ve come up with the Ruby equivalent of Perl’s TIMTOWTDI (There is more then one way to do it.) Continue reading
06/5/08
Yearly Archives: 2008
06/4/08
Disappointing McCain
Wired reports on McCain’s apparent change of heart, no longer supporting our right to privacy and instead believing the presidency is all powerful and can choose which laws to follow.
Obama keeps looking better and better…
06/2/08
Cabernet isn’t dead
With tcpreplay 3.3.2 development wrapping up, I think I’ll take a break from C and concentrate on Ruby. I’m still using Cabernet and with Passenger, it looks like my goal of distributing a Rails application is finally doable. So that means getting Cabernet ready for Rails 2.1 and of course cleaning up the UI so it’s not so horribly ugly. Continue reading
06/2/08
Turning Lechers into Contributors
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? Continue reading
06/1/08
If I build it, will they come?
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? Continue reading
05/31/08
Mission statements
So I was reading an article about a talk the Subversion authors gave and one of the things that stood out was the importance of having a mission statement to guide development and keep focus. Continue reading
05/18/08
Tcpreplay 3.3.1 and the future
I’m proud to release the second stable version of the Tcpreplay 3.3 train. Things seem pretty stable right now, with many end-user reported bugs resolved. I’m not sure, but I’m hoping this is the last of the 3.3.x series so I can start working on new features. Continue reading
05/7/08
How to test IDS/IPS Hardware?
Recently, someone asked this question on the IDS email list:
Hi guys,
Can you please give me some reference or links on how to test IPS/IDS hardware box.
Clearly this person hasn’t read Eric Raymond’s How To Ask Questions the Smart Way. Continue reading
04/30/08
3.3rc2 is ready!
So I’ve merged in the new high-accuracy performance code into the mainline trunk. Depending on your operating system you may or may not notice any improvement, but here’s the rundown of the changes: Continue reading
04/27/08
Tcpreplay + Fragroute = v3.3.rc1
I’ve finally got a basic integration of Dug Song’s fragroute with tcprewrite. I’m pretty excited about this not only because it’s something I’ve wanted to do for over two years, but because it really shows the power of Open Source. Anyways, big thanks to Dug who made this possible not only by his work writing fragroute, but also choosing a license which allows people like me to use it in their own projects. Continue reading