Monthly Archives: August 2010

08/22/10

Why Tcpreplay went GPL

I’ve been thinking about this for a while and honestly pretty made up my mind months ago, but I finally go enough determination to edit almost all the files in the trunk source tree and change the license from the 3 clause BSD to GPLv3.

There’s actually a number of reasons for the change and I wanted to share the ones that were most important to me. I don’t expect everyone to like the decision, but probably most won’t care since it doesn’t really impact them. But sometimes people get all bent out of shape when a project that has been around as long as Tcpreplay (10 years? Damn, where did the time go?) changes its license so I wanted to give my side of it. The change doesn’t mean I don’t like the BSD license anymore, just that I now feel the GPL is more appropriate for the Tcpreplay Suite. Continue reading →

08/15/10

tcpreplay 3.4.5 beta1 released

Just a quick heads up for everyone, I’ve released tcpreplay 3.4.5
beta1beta2: https://synfin.net/tcpreplay-3.4.5beta2.tar.gz

I wasn’t originally planning on doing a beta for 3.4.5, but due to
feature creep it’s taking more time then I thought. Now that I’m done
racing for the summer, hopefully I’ll have more time to fix the
remaining open bugs & enhancements before the fall. It’s my goal that
3.4.5 will be the final 3.x release, with future enhancements being
placed in the 4.0 branch- it’s become too much of a PITA to keep
merging code between the two branches since 4.0 is really nothing like
3.x.

Anyways, this release concentrates on features & bugs users requested
or found. Special thanks goes out to Dmitriy Gerasimov who
submitted a patch for Linux TX_RING support. It’s not yet supported
on all Linux systems, but on those that it does should hopefully see
improved topspeed performance. I’d love what people’s experience is
with this feature- does it help? If so when? The other major feature
is sending two files at the same time- one out each interface. Should
hopefully be useful when replaying traffic captured via network taps.
Both features probably haven’t seen enough testing by me, but
hopefully some people are interested enough by them to try them out
and let me know how well they work.

Obligatory changelog:

08/15/2010 Version 3.4.5beta1
   - First pass at fixing 'make test' on many little-endian systems (#429)
   - Don't try to fragroute non-IPv4/v6 packets so we don't error out (#432)
   - Warn users when processing LINUX_SLL frames w/o an Ethernet source MAC (#434)
   - Initial Linux TX_RING sending support (#435)
   - Update to GNU Autoconf 2.67 (#436)
   - Add tcpcapinfo which dumps information about the pcap header/packets (#437)
   - Add --dualfile support for replaying two files at the same time (#439)
   - Fix bug where --tos=0 didn't do anything (#440)
   - Fix crash when processing CIDR data (#441)

Update: Turns out I forgot to merge the TX_RING support in. 3.4.5beta2 fixes that. Sorry for any confusion!

08/3/10

Worse to Better: AFM 2010 Round 6

I didn’t do race reports for the last two rounds at Thunderhill because frankly I just wanted to forget them. Even though I put in personal best times at round 4, dropping 4 seconds from last year, I was disappointed with my results where anything but top novice in 650P just isn’t good enough. But then round 5 was just a complete disaster- I never made it out on track due to an engine failure. I thought the noise from my engine was a cam-chain issue (which I thought was fixed Friday night at the track), but the ride to the hot-pits was enough to dissuade me of that notion and so I took it to BRG Racing. KC listened to my description and then the bike and with a long face told me to just push it into his truck. Continue reading →