Luis' Status Report - #15 of 17

["Luis MartinGarcia." <luis.mgarc () gmail com>]

Hi!

Here are the accomplishments of the week and the priorities for next week:

Accomplishments:

* Many improvements to the IPv6 detection engine:
  * Made it send the current Nmap OS detection probes (TCP).
  * Improved sniffer and BPF handling.
  * Implemented a complete packet matcher: a function that
    determines if a given captured packet is a response to
    a previously sent OS detection probe.
  * Added ipv6fp.py style output to make it easier for
    David and I to experiment with the classifier.
  * Made the engine handle groups in a smarter way. Now
    new hosts are added to the current group as soon as
    other hosts are done. This prevents the situation where
    most hosts in the group have finished but some slow hosts
    don't let a new group of hosts start.
* Some more improvements to libnetutil's packet classes.
  * Set default header field values for some protocols.
  * Implemented additional ICMPv6 message types.
  * Improved documentation.
  * Merged the NodeInfoHeader and ICMPv6Header classes.
  * Bugfixes.
* Started thinking about how to perform congestion control.
* Some other minor bugfixes and cleanup.
* Had a meeting with David and scheduled the next one.

Priorities:

* Continue working on the implementation of the OS detection engine.
  * Define and implement congestion control algorithms.
  * Handle probe retransmissions and timeouts.
  * Improve integration with current data structures like
    the FingerPrintResults class.

Regards,

Luis MartinGarcia.


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