New tool for TCP research [FYI]

[Lawrence Stewart]

Hi all,

Finally managed to wrap up the code and documentation for a little 
module I thought might be of interest to people on this list. We've 
released the SIFTR (Statistical Information For TCP Research) code under 
a BSD licence, and hope some of you may find it useful. It's a tool 
mostly aimed at the TCP research community, but perhaps someone out 
there might find another use for all or part of the code.

We've also made a technical report available that documents what we 
learnt whilst transitioning from noob kernel hackers to guys that have a 
(partial) clue. The report is certainly a useful reference for us and 
people working at our research centre. We hope it will also be a useful 
reference for the community to point people at who are new to kernel 
hacking. The report's title is "An Introduction to FreeBSD 6 Kernel 
Hacking" and has been released as Centre for Advanced Internet 
Architectures Technical Report 070622A.

The code distributions and technical report can be grabbed from 
http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/newtcp/ under the "Tools" and "Papers" 
sections respectively.

If you find a use for the code or any bugs in the code/documentation, 
we'd be very happy to hear from you.

Cheers,
Lawrence