1 Here's a list of things we need to do (contributions are welcome and highly
2 appreciated, please also read Documentation/SubmittingPatches about how to
3 submit your contributions, items marked with '!' are of high importance):
5 0! Improve manpages, extend the documentation or write useful howtos.
6 @TODO: Jon Schipp, Daniel Borkmann
8 1! Highest prio: Cleanup and refactor the code and build system to make it
9 more maintainable, stable, and probably faster! mausezahn: clean it up
10 add fork + fanout mode, remove libpcap dependency, let it also store
11 pcap files e.g. on a network filesystem of the mausezahn box.
12 @TODO: Daniel Borkmann
14 3! Add full IPv6 support for flowtop, test IPv6 on curvetun and mausezahn.
15 @TODO: Daniel Borkmann
17 5) Make trafgen also write to a pcap instead to a device.
19 6) Let netsniff-ng and trafgen support pcap and pcap-ng!
21 10! Add a proper 802.11 dissector for netsniff-ng.
24 12) Add new dissectors (e.g. BGP, DNS, DCCP, SCTP, RSVP, IPsec, LISP, RADIUS,
25 LLC, fix MPLS?, improve ARP, BPDU, PVST, CDP, LLDP, RTP, Syslog, NTP,
26 OpenFlow, ...), add new protocols to mausezahn.
28 13! Easier language (bpf-hla) for /fast/ filtering (e.g. on top of BPF so
29 that it can run in the kernel), include this into bpfc (bpfc-hla).
30 @TODO: Tobias Kalbitz, Markus Amend
32 16) Further micro-optimize netsniff-ng, trafgen, mausezahn's performance. Use
33 Oprofile for optimize tools!
35 17) Security review of curvetun.
37 21) Obfuscate curvetun's protocol to make it hard/resource-intensive for DPIs.
39 22! Add different timing models to trafgen, not just a static interpacket gap.
40 @TODO: Daniel Borkmann
42 25) Do performance tests with 10 Gigabit cards.
44 28! Remove liburcu dependency from flowtop.
45 @TODO: Daniel Borkmann
47 29) Improve the Linux kernel's net/packet/af_packet.c (that we rely on)
49 30! Fix UDP+TCP tracking in flowtop.
50 @TODO: Daniel Borkmann
52 31) astraceroute: implement DNS traceroute with AS/Geo information
54 32) ifpps: add option for --dev eth0,eth1,eth2 and accumulate stats
56 33) flowtop: can we get per socket pps, bytes per sec without sniffing?
58 34) Are there other interesting (e.g. ethtool) stats for ifpps? E.g. backlog
59 queue statistics in ifpps (discussion with Jon Schipp).
61 35) Build a generic interface that is somewhat transparant to RX_RING/TX_RING
62 where we can user uio-dma, integrate uio-ixgbe and probably port others.
63 This could be invoked through a special build option. Default should always
65 [1] http://pub.netsniff-ng.org/misc/uio-dma.tar.bz2
66 [2] http://pub.netsniff-ng.org/misc/uio-ixgbe.tar.bz2
68 38! netsniff-ng (and others): if interface goes down, properly exit
69 @TODO: Daniel Borkmann
71 39! Add a pcap indexing utility fo a faster retrival, analysis on huge
72 pcap files. Write the index file out for each pcap capture.
73 @TODO: Daniel Borkmann
75 40! Give more than just a one-line description of each tool on the website.
76 Probably, a new section after Abstract might help.
77 @TODO: Daniel Borkmann
79 41! Add vlan support for bpfc (http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg213464.html).