TODO
- good homepage for tcpick (italian too)
for 0.2.1 version (Jan/Feb 2005)
- fix all bugs in KNOWN-BUGS (VERY IMPORTANT) (and fix all FIXME's)
- flag to distinguish between client and server data in a
tcp-bidirectional output file with an introductive banner.
- atexit and cleanup functions (also use of _exit)
- fix fields alignation
- exit after a number of packets / connections
- statistics:
- bytes/second, connections resetted, connections/hour
- total connections
- total bytes transferred by {clients|servers}
- total packets received / lost
- (other?)
for 0.2.2 version (Mar 2005)
- balanced/avl tree in the connection tracking engine
- improve speed by using function pointers
- add acknowledged stream banner (i.e. “data (offset:1234) sent from client: foobar”)
- (other?)
for 0.3.0 version (2005)
- managing DLT_LOOP, DLT_IEEE802_11 and DLT_NULL fully tested
- complete INTERNALS file (there is lot to write)
- http/yahoo decoder by Saumil Shah (separate package?)
- increase tracking speed by adding a hash function or a `memcmp'
(thanks to mainman's experience)
- increase speed by adding multithreading
- add a “turbo” mode (with the ./configure remove features)
- print only some status (i.e. only ESTABLISHED)
- custom filenaming pattern
- writing the offsets and seqs to file and terminal
colors
- ability to enable/disable _detailed_ header printing
- write name lookups to a file (useful?)
- use the other nice libpcap functions (fully)
for the far future
- autodetect and name ftp and http files (external program?)
- autodect and decrypt ssh/ssl connections (external program?)
- "spider" mode: make a path of all urls visited by some hosts
(external program?)
(that will be a nice mode to see what kind of sites are hosts visiting)
- ncurses/gtk fork/front-end
- RFC1149 compatibility and RFC3514 support