As many of us know, snoop is a bit long in the tooth when it comes to
some aspects of network traffic analysis when compared to more modern
tools such as wireshark. The end-game most people have in mind is for
snoop to everntually be removed from ON... and that got me thinking: why
not cut snoop free?
What do I mean by "cut snoop free"?
Well, if we no longer wish to support snoop and do not wish to bundle it
with the standard product, why not pull it out into a tar-ball of souce
code that can be downloaded and compiled?
And maybe we could go a step further: create a project to
maintain/enhance snoop on a website such as sourceforge and let the
community take complete control of it? The community at large could even
port it to Linux or BSD, if such as their wish. Having it hosted on a
non-opensolaris web site would be important for many reasons.
If we can do the above, then we could move snoop from being an ON
component to an SFW component (or similar) and still allow those who
want it to use pkg to install it. So we solve our issue (having to
support/enhance a program we don't want to spend a lot of time in -
snoop ) and at the same time keep it available for those that "must have
it."
In the past, the biggest obstacle to us doing this would have been the
source code being closed. That problem is solved.
Thoughts?
Darren
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