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The Netstorm development will continue on the project fork "Hyenae".

Release 0.26 will finally feature the ability to start a local TCP RST-Daemon. You will also be able to use address patterns to match detected TCP sessions that shall be reseted.

AFter finishing the TCP-RST attack, Netstorm V0.25 now will also feature the window based TCP-ACK attack which will allow you to inject data within an existing data transmission. I will publish the latest version at the beginning of the next week.

Netstorm 0.24 now supports TCP-RST attacks based on the article "Slipping in the window" from Paul A. Watson. You now can reproduce the very same attack szenario that Paul is describing within his article. The window size to use can be freely defined by passing the -w argument.

During a lot of requests i will publish a new version of netstorm within the next few weeks. Besides a few bug fixes, code stripping and refactoring, i also implemented a few new features.

Iam allmost done implementing the GTK UI. There is still some work to do and i have a lot of appointments this week, so hang on:)

Netstorm 0.21 has just been released and iam allready working on 0.22, which will include GNetstorm, the GTK version of Netstorm. I don't know when GNetstorm will be finished but i allready implemented a lot of functionalities. The development process is a bit slower than usual because i have to work on it on an 800x600 virtual box x.X.

Because iam not at the company for the rest of the week, i won't have a windows box for testing and creating the release packages for Netstorm 0.21. It will be released on the next monday. Curently i'm still working on the GTK support of version 0.22. The GUI is finished and the autoconf scripts have been adjusted to check for GTK support. Within future releases, Netstorm will feature the binary gnetstorm, which is the GTK version of Netstorm.

Hello,
i will release Netstorm 0.21 on the next monday or maybe tuesday. After this release i will re open the Netstorm GTK-Branch. I Have allready created the final GUI, now i "only" have to integrate it into Netstorm and implement the functionalities. I don't know if i can finish a first version of netstorm with GTK support for release 0.22 but iam working on it. This also means that the release of version 0.22 will take longer than usual so don't think the project has become inactive:P

Netstorm 0.20 is now official released, besides a few more features and better performance (and performance monitoring), i fixed a critical bug. Until now, all IP packages were generated with a wrong total length field. Some routers ignore the total length but yesterday i noticed that the router of a friend dropped every packet that was generated by netstorm. However, this issue is now fixed. Iam now working on getting netstorm ready for GTK, the user interface is allready in development.

Netstorm 0.20 will be released on the next monday (or maybe earlier:P). Besides a lot of code stripping and refactoring, the Daemon can now be protected with a password. I also fixed the pcap related crash on multiple client connections. I've also redesigned the attack routines, so that Netstorm now can do faster remote attacks. Version 0.20 is as always allready available on my SVN repo.

I finally found the time for a bit more intense testing. I found severeal critical and non crital bugs and fixed them. Netstorm 0.19 will also have a few new features such as: "Single remote attack" and "Cold run". I will release version 0.19 on monday but it is allready available on my SVN repo.

Due the overwhelming number of GTK developers that have signed up for writing a GUI for Netstorm (0), i have decided to write the GUI on my own. This will take a whole while because i never worked with GTK before so there won't be any new releases within the next time. I have fixed some bugs within Netstorm v0.18, you should switch to 0.19 which can be downloaded from my SVN Repo. I also created a 0.19-GTK branch for anyone who is interested.

Netstorm 0.18 will be released tomorrow. Besides a lot of refactoring, code stripping and autoconf related changes, i have droped the configuration file support because they are only minor benefits and caused a lot of migration problems.

I've just switched from normal Makefiles to automake. From version 0.18 on, Netstorm will be deployed with this build system but before i upload a new release, i have to run a few more tests.

Netstorm 0.17 is now available on my SVN-Repo. I will update my download page when iam back at work because i need a windows box to create the setup. Netstrm 0.17 now features detailed remote attack results on client side. I also mplemented the maximum client limit for the daemon.

Hello,
i've just finished the Netstorm daemon for Win32 and *nix based systems. It is available within the latest releas eof Netstorm (0.16). Pleas enote that i had to write the code within one days because i simply needed to put my concept in mind to the project. I've tested the daemon succesfully under WIndows and OS X but iam pretty sure that there are a lot of bugs to fix. If you find bugs or have problems running Netstorm please post them to my tracker! The plans for release 0.17 are primary bug fixing.

The first beta of the Netstorm daemon will be included within the next release. I can not promise that the daemon will support windows within the first releases but it sure will do within the next versions.

Version 0.15 of Netstorm (which i will release within the coming days) will allready have the client side remote attack functionalities built in. The daemon implementation will be the next topic on my list. I will update my SVN repo this evening.

Good news, i've just added the basic structure for remote attacks (client side), i will implement the client side first because its the most easiest (but still a lot of coding) part.

The Netstorm Remote Attack Request stack is ready to use, now i can start to write the client / server functionality for Netstorm cluster attacks.

Netstorm is nearly stable but i can procceed with new features without having more people who are actually testing the tool and posting bugs:/

The future plans for netstorm are:
* A GTK based GUI
* A crossplatform daemon/service for cluster
attacks.
* A TCP based protocol for netstorm clients to
communicate with,- and to connect to the
daemon.

The first public beta release of Netstorm (0.9) will available on SF today. Currently i haven't had the time to create any setups/packages for deploying binary versions of Netstorm, so you have to compile the source by yourself (Further instructions can be found in the README file). Please note that this is still a beta release, i've tested Netstorm on Windows XP, Ubuntu, Gentoo and Mac OS X but iam pretty sure that there are still a lot of bugs that need to be fixed.