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Welcome to HiPPIE

Thank you for visiting the home of the Hi-Performance Protocol Identification Engine (a.k.a. HiPPIE).  HiPPIE is an extension to the Linux kernel with the purpose of providing real-time network protocol classification upon a packet stream, whether fed live from a running network interface, or from another source.  To find out more about this capability, please check out the About HiPPIE page linked at left.  There are far too many features of HiPPIE to get into here, but a fairly extensive list of the big ones is available on our Features page.  To find a list of supported protocols, you can also look at our Protocol documentation.  Thanks again for visiting, and check out the latest project news below!

Working on 0.9.1

Well, I've been having a little bit of time to work on HiPPIE on and off, and I've accomplished some things that will come down the tube both in HiPPIE 0.9.1, as well as updates of the HiPPIE website.  I've got a few solid hours work left in a new webapp that will allow people to come to the website and upload small pcap files to have them analyzed by HiPPIE and a report posted to be viewed by them on what the contents of that pcap are, session by session.  This is a good preview to some folks for just how well HiPPIE works, and can also be used as a nice debugging tool for others as well. 

As far as 0.9.1 is concerned, one fix it will already for sure have is patching against 2.6.24 and beyond, as I've resolved the issue with proc_net that was causing the problem, which has been committed to CVS.  I have a few other things I want to get in before releasing 0.9.1, including documentation on doing an active HiPPIE installation, as well as the release of the HiPPIE iptables extension that ties into the HiPPIE netfilter plugin that is already in the kernel patches.  It's done, I just need to get the patchset up and documented.

Until then, I hope you're enjoying playing with 0.9.0, and I look forward to delivering more protocol identification work to you!

Posted in News by BalDown on 2008-03-31 19:42:27 GMT
HiPPIE 0.9.0 Released - Finally

Well, the time has finally come.  HiPPIE is now a reality for people besides myself.  Granted, it's not a full 1.0 stable release yet, but as a friend of mine has mentioned to me many times over the last year, "release early, release often."  Finally, I'm heeding his advice.  So, without further adue, you can now get your very own copy of HiPPIE right from the download page.  There are still a couple instabilities which you can find in the caveats on the download page, but you can see for yourself that HiPPIE is fully available over at SourceForge.  As you get ready to start trying HiPPIE out, check through the documentation, which is still a work in progress, and if you can't find the answer you're looking for there, sign up for the users mailing list, and have a shot at your question there, or shoot me an e-mail and I'll try to respond as timely as I can.  I hope this release is helpful to you all, and at the same time can help push HiPPIE forward into the future.

Posted in HiPPIE Code by BalDown on 2008-02-21 21:35:36 GMT
Web site backend almost done

I've been working on the new backend for the HiPPIE website ever since I took down all of my TikiWiki content because of all the vulnerabilities.  So, I've created a much simpler backend for managing HiPPIE's content.  In the meanwhile, I've also been finish up some code cleanup to begin preparing the way for what this is really all about.  Hopefully in the next couple days I can finish porting all of the old content to the new format, and then begin building new content on how to install and deploy HiPPIE, and then finally the official release of a set of HiPPIE patches for the kernel.  Thanks for your patience, and I promise it will be rewarded.

Posted in News by BalDown on 2008-02-04 19:19:54 GMT

 

 

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