Network Measurement Tool Detects Reset Packets

kickassweb writes "If you think your ISP is sniffing packets, or worse yet, sending reset packets to stop torrents, there's now a beta Network Measurement Tool to detect them, courtesy of Lauren Weinstein of the Net Neutrality Squad. It's released under the LGPL, and runs under Win2K, XP, and Vista. Quoting: 'While the reset packet detection system included in this release is of interest, NNSquad views this package as more important in the long run as a development base for a broad range of network measurement functionalities and associated communications and analysis efforts.'"

Slashdotters would laud this, but...

[elrous0]

Without a Linux version, it's obviously the work of Satan.

Satan Prevails - A distributed Get Your Hands Off

[itsybitsy]

How about setting up a firewall with our own deep packet inspection and reporting system? That way we can collectively scan, identify, analyze, report to a central site, aggregate the results, perform large scale analysis, and report the full results on all kinds of attacks on these firewalls around the world.

A distributed Get Your Hands Off My Network. This information can be used to provide Objective Evidence for Court Cases Against Aggressive ISP and Those Who Pretend To Be The Governments And Homeland Security Departments of The ~192 Imagined Countries Around The World. It's about time that these pretenders, who do real harm to other people in the world to, know that they are not the only ones with some power. We tech geeks say hands off our Internets and we are watching and reporting on YOU BIG BROTHER!

Power the the Geeks.

Re:No need to invoke Satan

[Anonymous Coward]

It usually starts with IWFM though YMMV and usually ends with RTFM and or STFU...

Re:Slashdotters would laud this, but...

[morgan_greywolf]

I hate it when people say "just port it" just because something is open source - Like every single computer user is capable of writing low level network code for any platform. I suspect that more than 99.9% of people of people who read slashdot would not stand a hope in hell of "porting it".

And, yet, at least 50-75% of those (probably much, much more) 99.9% are capable of learning how to do the work. The Linux TCP/IP stack, NIC drivers, etc., are fully open source. There are published specifications, docs, the whole nine yards. Read your RFCs. They're all online.

Programming C is just not that difficult, especially for anyone who already knows how to code in at least one other language.

Don't know how to code? There are tons of tutorials, books, and more on the Web, at your library, at your local bookstore and from e-commerce vendors everywhere.

If you have a brain, and an IQ of at least, say 115 or so, you have no excuse.

Re:Slashdotters would laud this, but...

[ATMD]

I'm sorry, but who modded this insightful? Because it isn't.

It's just plain common sense. The grandparent is just such an idiot that next to him, the frothings of a half-blind raccoon in the later stages of rabies would appear insightful, let alone someone who can string a sentence together.

(And do I get Insightful, Troll, or Funny? Or just ignored? I'll be interested to see...)