libnet NG vs. libnet and Python bindings...

[George V. Neville-Neil]

Hi,

I'm looking at creating and maintaining a new set of Python bindings
for libnet. How close is libnet-ng to being workable in the field?
I'm wondering which version to support. I know that there exists such
a library for the older libnet but it is not really a complete
solution.

Pointers to docs and URLs welcome.

Thanks,
George

[Frédéric Raynal]

Hello,

Post by George V. Neville-Neil
Hi,
I'm looking at creating and maintaining a new set of Python bindings
for libnet. How close is libnet-ng to being workable in the field?
I'm wondering which version to support. I know that there exists such
a library for the older libnet but it is not really a complete
solution.
Pointers to docs and URLs welcome.

NG is already workable ;-) No ... ok, let's be serious. To be 1.1
compliant, I still need to port some protocols (builders). That is not
really difficult most of the time but it takes time. Just to motivate
some volunteers who could help me, that is a really good way to go
into NG internals (if it is still not enough, I can still pay a beer
for each ported builder ;)

There is another issue, more complicated to handle: porting it to
different OS/architecture. I worked on those I have access to, but I
cant really do anything for others :(

About compatibility, it has been designed to be compatible with the
current API, and it is mostly. Have a look in src/README.ng, there are
all the information.

Some documentation:
- internal designs:
http://www.security-labs.org/index.php3?page=libnetng

- full documentation (also included in the sources):
http://www.security-labs.org/libnetng/README.ng


I have several features in mind to add. However, it seems it is time
to take care of the builders. So, I'll work on that asap.

Fred Raynal

PS: I started compilation tests under FreeBSD 5.3, and it compiles
now. But I still have some execution tests to perform.

[g***@neville-neil.com]

At Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:13:14 +0100,

NG is already workable ;-) No ... ok, let's be serious. To be 1.1
compliant, I still need to port some protocols (builders). That is
not really difficult most of the time but it takes time. Just to
motivate some volunteers who could help me, that is a really good
way to go into NG internals (if it is still not enough, I can still
pay a beer for each ported builder ;)

:-) I think it's good enough to start with. I will be working on
both FreeBSD and Mac OS X (10.3.7). It will be slow going as this
project only gets 20% of my time, but I will do what I can. On OSX There is
a fink package for libnet as well as a darwin port of libnet11. I
may, but probably won't, set up a similar package for NG.

There is another issue, more complicated to handle: porting it to
different OS/architecture. I worked on those I have access to, but I
cant really do anything for others :(

I am only on FreeBSD and Mac OS X for now. I might do Linux/Zaurus
(ARM) but that's far off right now.

About compatibility, it has been designed to be compatible with the
current API, and it is mostly. Have a look in src/README.ng, there
are all the information.

Yup, found that, going to give it a read later.

http://www.security-labs.org/index.php3?page=libnetng
http://www.security-labs.org/libnetng/README.ng

Great!

I have several features in mind to add. However, it seems it is time
to take care of the builders. So, I'll work on that asap.
Fred Raynal
PS: I started compilation tests under FreeBSD 5.3, and it compiles
now. But I still have some execution tests to perform.

Great. I'm on the list so I'll be following all this.

Thanks,
George