vcap porting
I used 24C3 to do some work on vcap. I started porting the source to BSD as I want to continue working on my FreeBSD machine. Thanks to the support of the BSD TCP stack in Linux I was able to port it very fast. Just some adjustments of the includes and settings a few constant it compiled well on BSD. I also added IPv6 support as 24C3 was a perfect network to do some realtime testings on that.
Well sadly I still have some various crashes based on race conditions during startup. I didnot have the time yet to fix that, but next time I take
hands on vcap, that will be fixed.
What is vcap?
Vcap captures ethernet packages like tcpdump or wireshark and displays statistik about them using modern visualization techniques. At the moment the statstics are drawn using a sunburst algorithm. It aims to give you a much fast overview about the network statstiks than tcpdump or netstat or something similiar does. It’s GTK based. Vcap is not yet stable and it is known that it has some issues that causes vcap to fault. But work goes on.