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• Octopus v1.0-beta released

  Octopus - A JAVA-base and ethereal-like tool for network packets capture and protocols analyze. For now, protocols that can be interpreted are based on TCP/IP. Those protocols that can be interpreted are as follows: 1. LAYER2: ethernet rfc894 2. LAYER3: IP, ARP, RARP 3. LAYER4(Transfer layer): TCP/UDP, GRE, ICMP. All protocols above IP layers are treated as "Transfer layer", including ICMP and GRE. 4. LAYER5(Application layer): FTP, PPP-IN-HDLC-FRAMING, SNMP. All protolcols above transfer layer are treated as "Application layer", including some tunneling protocols such PPP in GRE encapsulation. 5. Higher Layers: Sometimes there are more layers than just the application layer that defined in TCP/IP model, just like such protocol layer model: ETHERNET - IP - GRE - PPP - LCP You can see that above PPP(treated as applicationg layer above the transfer layer GRE), there is still an LCP layer. We treate the layer alike as "Higher layer". Higher layers are common in tunneling usage. The most significant feature of Octopus is that it is plugginable. One can add a self-defined decoder for a specific protocol, just extends a kind of class "AbstractProtocolLayer" and following some rules. After compiling the decoder one can add it to Octopus by adding a new line to the configuration file for decoders. For now, only the application protocols that based on TCP or UDP and transer layer protocols that based on IP can be pluggined. Octopus is written most by JAVA (GUI and protocol analyzing). The part of network packet capture is written by standard C with the calling of a framous lib for packet capture - libpcap(For windows, is Winpcap). JNI is used for between JAVA and C. Three platforms of dynamic link library can be provided: windows, linux, and solaris, so Octpus will accordingly has three version for these platform relatively. For now Octopus just build the infrastructure of larger scale protocol analyse software. There is a lot to do to make it more useful, just like ethereal. Now is the beggining... Everyone is welcome to participate in this project.

  posted by ouhaiping 1823 days ago

• octopus-javacap octopus_win 1.0-beta file released: octopus.zip

  This is the first release. Only the base features are supported. Packet capture and such protocols can be interpret as followings: 1. LAYER2: ethernet rfc894 2. LAYER3: IP, ARP, RARP 3. LAYER4(Transfer layer): TCP/UDP, GRE, ICMP. All protocols above IP layers are treated as "Transfer layer", including ICMP and GRE. 4. LAYER5(Application layer): FTP, PPP-IN-HDLC-FRAMING, SNMP(TBD). All protolcols above transfer layer are treated as "Application layer", including some tunneling protocols such PPP in GRE encapsulation. 5. Higher Layers: Sometimes there are more layers than just the application layer that defined in TCP/IP model, just like such protocol layer model: ETHERNET - IP - GRE - PPP - LCP You can see that above PPP(treated as applicationg layer above the transfer layer GRE), there is still an LCP layer. We treate the layer alike as "Higher layer". Higher layers are common in tunneling usage.

  posted 1823 days ago

• octopus-javacap octopus_win 1.0-beta file released: octopus_src.zip

  This is the first release. Only the base features are supported. Packet capture and such protocols can be interpret as followings: 1. LAYER2: ethernet rfc894 2. LAYER3: IP, ARP, RARP 3. LAYER4(Transfer layer): TCP/UDP, GRE, ICMP. All protocols above IP layers are treated as "Transfer layer", including ICMP and GRE. 4. LAYER5(Application layer): FTP, PPP-IN-HDLC-FRAMING, SNMP(TBD). All protolcols above transfer layer are treated as "Application layer", including some tunneling protocols such PPP in GRE encapsulation. 5. Higher Layers: Sometimes there are more layers than just the application layer that defined in TCP/IP model, just like such protocol layer model: ETHERNET - IP - GRE - PPP - LCP You can see that above PPP(treated as applicationg layer above the transfer layer GRE), there is still an LCP layer. We treate the layer alike as "Higher layer". Higher layers are common in tunneling usage.

  posted 1823 days ago

• File released: /octopus-javacap/octopus_win 1.0-beta/octopus.zip

  posted 1823 days ago

• File released: /octopus-javacap/octopus_win 1.0-beta/octopus_src.zip

  posted 1823 days ago

• Code committed

  Anonymous committed patchset 1 of module CVSROOT to the octopus CVS repository, changing 11 files

  posted by nobody 1823 days ago

• Forum thread added

  Anonymous created the Welcome to Developers forum thread

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• Forum thread added

  Anonymous created the Welcome to Help forum thread

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• Forum thread added

  Anonymous created the Welcome to Open Discussion forum thread

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• Project Information Updated

  ouhaiping registered the octopus project

  posted by ouhaiping 1824 days ago