Woot. Actually making progress with the tcpedit libraryization. The API is finally coming together and seems usable. One of these days, I should make libtcpedit a plugin chain rather then a bunch of static code, but that’s like a 4.0 feature. :)

Anyways, hopefully in a couple of weeks beta8 will be ready to go. I don’t think tcpbridge will be working, but that can come later.

I’ve come to the realization that my blog is a much better way of reporting of what’s going on with tcpreplay then the news section, so I’ve decided to move to using the blog for now on.

Anyways, with that said, tcpreplay is still in active development as I have time. I know it’s been a long long time since the last 3.0beta release, but since then I’ve doing a major rewrite to clean up the code. Like most rewrites I’m sure it’ll pay off dividends in the long run, but it’s taking longer then I had hoped. Once the rewrite is complete, I’ll move towards a release early, release often methodology.

I’m also still in the process of updating all the docs so that people can be more familar with the features in the Tcpreplay suite- lately I’ve met a lot of people who don’t know that tcpreplay can edit packets or supports splitting traffic between two interfaces.

So my friend Chris sent me this link to yet another tcpreplay copycat. There’s already IDS Informer and Traffic IQ.

Of course, the above tools have pretty GUI’s and have some features not found in tcpreplay, but the fact is that if you take tcpreplay, tcpdump, ethereal and NetDude you get 60-90% of the functionality at 0% of the cost.

Anyways, I’ll bet there are plenty of other tcpreplay look-alikes… If you know of any, leave a comment and let me know! Even better, if you’ve bought one of these tools, why did you pick it over the alternatives?

Well tonight, my allergies were going bonkers and I knew I wouldn’t be able to get any sleep until the drugs kicked in. Hence I not only found time to continue working on the new tcpreplay website, but also to make huge strides on moving all the packet editing functionality into a library which will end up shipping with tcpreplay 3.0.

As it turns out, one of the nice advantages of using Bruce Korb’s excellent AutoOpts package, is that you can make argument processing part of your library too, so people have the option of filling out the tcpedit_t data structure manually or let the library do all the work.

Well as of today, other then the tcpreplay mailing lists and file downloads, I’ve moved off of SourceForge. SF is a nice service (hard to complain about free) but it’s missing a lot of features which I’ve grown to expect. Hence, I’ve now moved the offical tcpreplay homepage to tcpreplay.synfin.net.

As you’ll no doubt quickly notice, I’ve moved to using Trac which is a great wiki, ticking and front-end to SVN all in one. Be sure to check it out and leave a comment!