Not too sure about the dubious nature of the name "Squeak Attack
Framework," but I think it's exciting to have a way to directly inject
ethernet packets into a network from Squeak (using a portable libraray
no less!).  This should be interesting for those that want to use Squeak
as an operating system (since you could implement ARP, Ping, etc).  In
fact, it might be worth considering the use of libnet by VM implementors
since it can provide the same interface on a variety of platforms
(including Mac it seems).

- Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Stefan Krecher
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 6:56 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: [ANN] Packets for Squeak
> 
> 
> Hello!
> 
> A few month ago i announced the idea of a "squeak attack 
> framework" - a 
> nessus-like vuln.-scanner. I'm still working on that, but 
> first of all I guess, that it's important to have a 
> packet-injection and -capturing-engine for Squeak. So I 
> programmed a little shared-library for Linux, to create 
> Packets from Squeak (via pluggable primitives). The 
> libnet-library is needed. 
> On my homepage (http://www.krecher.de/) you can get the 
> c-source of the 
> library and some smalltalk-code, that show's how to use it.
> For example it is possible to send packets the following way: 
> TCP new payload: 'howdy'; dstIp: '192.168.0.2'; send The next 
> steps will be to improve the class-design an implement more 
> protocols. I'm going to produce some more documentation, 
> maybe on building plug prims. Then a packetcapturing-engine 
> will be build, i think of using libpcap, but have no ideas of 
> a possible design right now. Suggestions, testing, critiscism 
> and help are very welcome.
> 
> Best regards,
> Stefan
> 
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