[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of vNET Project

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Thomas Sarlandie <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: vNET Project
System name: vnet
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

Description:
vNET stands for Visual Network Exploration Tool. It is a two part project which 
allows the user to view is network in 3 dimension.

The first part is called : \"probe\" and is a daemon launched on a UN*X box. We 
currently support FreeBSD and GNU/Linux. The probe\'s job is to handle requests 
from the client, and to do stuff like pingsweeping, tracerouting, portscanning, 
fingerprinting, etc. It must be run as root in order to do raw packet handling.

The second part is called : \"client\" and is a SDL/OpenGL program that 
connects to one or more probes and renders the network as seen by the probe. It 
currently runs on GNU/Linux (main developpment platform), Win32, and FreeBSD. 
The user can click on a network, a host, etc to see its properties or to ask 
the probe to get more information.

Communication between probe and client is currently done either in clear TCP or 
using openssl. 

We have been working on that project since the beginning of the year as a 
school-project. We have received authorization to distribute the project under 
the GPL License. Source code has not been made publicly available yet, but you 
can find screenshots and more information on our web site : 
www.vnet-project.org .

The source code should be made available as soon as the Savannah account is 
available (and when we have finished adding the GPL stuff at the top of each 
file) and we are planning to do a beta release on the 14th of June.

Other Software Required:
We depend on a few libraries : OpenGL, SDL, zlib, OpenSSL (optionnal), Perl5 
(optionnal)

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