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diff --git a/doc/TODO.md b/doc/TODO.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd04f3c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/TODO.md @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +TODO +==== + +Stuff we didn't finish and where help is needed. Cleaning up the below +list is another thing we need help with. + + +- Build with debug memory allocation or dmalloc library + - http://dmalloc.com/ + - https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Public-Macros.html (`AM_WITH_DMALLOC`) + +- Switch to npcap (win32) + +- Take inventory of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/libnet# + +- Add automatic tests for `make check`, IPv6 in particular + +- change all `__WIN32` and `__WIN32__` preprocessor directives with the + more universal `WIN32` and `_WIN32` directives (msvc + mingw) + (eliminating the need for `-mwin32`) + +- Improve documentation: FAQ, Examples, adding RFCs + +- Fix "broken" samples (on win32?) + +- Fix MSVC/Mingw collision + + +1.1.x TODO LIST +--------------- + +The following is possibly outdated and already fixed. + +- Update the man page! + +- Add a programmer's man page detailing the pblock architecture. + +- Fix plist memory leak. + +- Fix IPv6. According to RFC 2992: + + > "Another difference from IPv4 raw sockets is that complete packets + > (that is, IPv6 packets with extension headers) cannot be read or + > written using the IPv6 raw sockets API. Instead, ancillary data + > objects are used to transfer the extension headers, as described + > later in this document. Should an application need access to the + > complete IPv6 packet, some other technique, such as the datalink + > interfaces BPF or DLPI, must be used. + > + > All fields in the IPv6 header that an application might want to + > change (i.e., everything other than the version number) can be + > modified using ancillary data and/or socket options by the + > application for output. All fields in a received IPv6 header (other + > than the version number and Next Header fields) and all extension + > headers are also made available to the application as ancillary data + > on input. Hence there is no need for a socket option similar to the + > IPv4 `IP_HDRINCL` socket option." + +- Add self-throttling logic to `libnet_write()`/`libnet_init()`? + Advanced mode thing? + +- Prune the include list in `libnet.h.in`. Also add conditionals + around the headers we use for building the library, but not when + using it. + +- Data marshalling API for unaligned structures (like STP). + +- Make Cisco ISL work. The issue is that we have build our Ethernet + frame first, then encapsulate it inside of an ISL envelope. + - We have to compute CRCs for both Ethernet and ISL. + +- Tune advanced interface functionality that allow the application + programmer to get inside `libnet_t`. + +- Test HPUX 11 port. + +- Test cywin32 port. + +- Flesh out the advanced mode. + +- Consider making a flag for "strict mode" where libnet will check + things like when you build an IP options list there is an IP + header preceding it (likewise for TCP)... Other "smart" things + could happen in this mode too. When in non-strict mode, libnet + will be less rigid but prone to user-error mode. + +- If we have a problem building a header we might end up freeing it + creating a NULL entry on the list and preventing us from getting to + entries beyond it (to free or whatever). Maybe we should mark it + bad or something and rely on the cleanup at the end to free it up? + +- Fix checksum support for CDP + +- Verify Checksuming: + Currently verified working on OpenBSD/Linux/Solaris: + - raw IP/UDP [with and without data] + - raw IP/TCP [with and without data] + - raw IP/ICMP [with and without data] + - raw IP/OSPF + - hello packet [with no auth data] + - hello packet [with no auth data and LSA sub-header (LSA check = bad)] + - link IP/UDP [with and without data] + - link IP/TCP [with and without data] + +- Update the rest of the `libnet_link_*` files for the new format, + already ported: + - bpf [works] + - linux packet socket [works] + - linux sock packet [works] + - dlpi [works] + +- Port link stuff to use `writev()` in `libnet_write()` (sendto can't hang). + +- Get IPsec code working. + +- Add the following packet builders: + - SNMP + +- Update `__libnet_handle_dump` to dump everything in `l` verbosely. |