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Network Measurement Tool Detects Reset Packets

Posted by kdawson on from the getting-it-on-record dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:RST blocking? by cduffy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Without RST packets, how are you supposed to know if the remote host is legitimately closing the connection?

  2. Network Measurement Tool Detect Reset Packets by HPUXCowboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    I would point out that a tool has existed for years that possessed this capability AND has been available on BOTH Linux (*NIX) and M$ platforms. It's called Wireshark (formerly Ethereal). I will offer the caveat that you had to know a bit about TCP/IP protocol to use this tools but, there it is.

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  3. Re:Slashdotters would laud this, but... by Bill_the_Engineer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would like to give the benefit of the doubt to the original poster and interpret his comments this way:

    If there was a ready made package for me to use, I would gladly help the monitoring effort. However, I find the mantra "just port it" not only a reactionary response, but also totally unrealistic.

    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.

    I find this totally hilarious and would have modded you funny if I had the points to give. You are a comic genius using the absurd to humorously make a point...

    I mean it's like saying "If you are capable of reading all the books available on construction and building codes, then there is no excuse for you not being able to build your own house."

    Of course I could be wrong and misinterpreted both of your responses, in that case nevermind...

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  4. Re:Slashdotters would laud this, but... by Inner_Child · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you have a brain, and an IQ of at least, say 115 or so, you have no excuse. Maybe your time is worthless, but I actually have things that I have to do. Learning to code requires time that I (and I'm sure many others) just don't have.
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  5. Re:Slashdotters would laud this, but... by blhack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you have a brain, and an IQ of at least, say 115 or so, you have no excuse. Thank you for completely trivializing a skill that some of us spend our entire lives perfecting.

    Seriously, it is this sort of mentality that is killing tech. You DO have to be extremely smart/dedicated to do really low level CS work. You DO have to have a pretty heavy mathematics background to do any really serious code work and it is NOT something that you can "Learn in 7 days" no matter what the books you bought at borders are telling you.
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