Hi all, Thank you all for the comments. I took a second look at "tcpreplay" and still tcpdump it my preferred way to solve my problem. tcpreplay only reads the packets and throw them to the network, while, with tcpdump, I can use the powerfull filtering capabilities which are allready implemented not to mention the big number of different protocols being handled separately which made it very easy to add "my" new feature (I think this is the place to thank everybody who ware involved with this project ...). Regarding networking and it's portability, since I'm talking about streaming over UDP, my implementation for sendgin out the packets was in the UDP level which shouldn't be a big porting problem (not for LINUX / UNIX / windows platforms which I'm aware of).
Regarding the need: I know about at least 8 more organizations which are going to use the mentioned patch, and my guess is that it will be usefull for some more streaming projects (which is an interesting issue this days... e.g. mpeg4ip). I believe that this kind of debugging tool will be helpfull for the society. Best regards, Dotan Shavit, Mobixell. On Friday 05 April 2002 02:47, Michael Richardson wrote: > >>>>> "Dotan" == Dotan Shavit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dotan> Hello tcpdumpers, > > Dotan> I would like to contribute the following patch to tcpdump. > Dotan> This patch enables tcpdump to send out packets over udp. > Dotan> My need for this patch was to "replay" RTP streams for debuggin > / server Dotan> simulation. > > have you seen "tcpreplay" ? > > tcpreplay had a home, but it got lost. > It was: http://www.anzen.com/research/nidsbench/ > > We have a copy of it checked into www.tcpdump.org, but it hasn't gone > anywhere. Would you be interested in doing some prettying of it, and > getting it released? See... > http://cvsweb.tcpdump.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/tcpreplay/ > > The ability to send packets is not inherently portable and is probably a > bad idea for tcpdump to have too much of that. > > ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | > firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON > |net architect[ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device driver[ ] panic("Just another > NetBSD/notebook using, kernel hacking, security guy"); [ - This is the TCPDUMP workers list. It is archived at http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/index.html To unsubscribe use mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe
