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OpenPacket.org 1.0 Is Live

[Posted April 4, 2008 by jake]

From Richard Bejtlich's weblog comes the news that OpenPacket.org is open for business. "The mission of OpenPacket.org is to provide quality network traffic traces to researchers, analysts, and other members of the digital security community. One of the most difficult problems facing researchers, analysts, and others is understanding traffic carried by networks. At present there is no central repository of traces from which a student of network traffic could draw samples. OpenPacket.org will provide one possible solution to this problem."

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Posted Apr 5, 2008 4:25 UTC (Sat) by kfiles (subscriber, #11628) [Link]

I find the wireshark wiki a good source of captured packets in all sorts of formats:
  http://wiki.wireshark.org/SampleCaptures?highlight=%28cap...

Any time a new wireshark dissector is suggested, the developers request that a sample capture
of the protoool in question be uploaded to the wiki. Perhaps the OpenPacket people would do
well to work with wireshark developers to publicise and document their library of capture
files, which is much richer than the 5 or so captures currently uploaded to openpacket.org.

  --kirby