Re: [crack-attack-devel] Crack-Attack! 1.1.15 cvs 01 Testing Announcement

[Antonio Ospite]

On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:40:32 -0400
Andrew Sayman <address@hidden> wrote:

> ===========================
> Crack-Attack! 1.1.15 CVS 01
> ===========================
> 
> It's time to begin testing for a new release.
> 
> Over the 1.1.15 development cycle we changed the networking code to
> use ENet[1]. This has two important implications:
> 1) 1.1.15 is not backwards compatible with any other versions of
> crack-attack at all.
> 2) We need people to test the new code to death!
>

3) keep out of the game the IPv6 guys :)

As far as I can see ENet is NOT IPv6 aware, are you really sure you
want to stick to IPv4 world?
A year ago I made a patch [1] to make crack-attack Address Family
independent, so that both IPv4 and IPv6 could be used but now this
patch is simply useless since ENet does not allow a flexible handling
of those "low level" networking details.

Form my viewpoint the new crack-attack release will be less extensible
than the previous one. And consider that most linux distributions are
making efforts to port software to use IPv6, please note that it is not
just a _future_ technology anymore.

Anyway, I see that ENet can be very handy for you so maybe the solution
is to ask ENet developers to improve their library to achieve Address
Family independence [2], albeit the library seems to be untouched by a
very long time, and I do not know if there will be further development
or support.

Don't take me wrong, I don't want to look too hard, I wanted just to
point out the limits of EFnet, if you use it you should know _all_ the
important implications :)

BTW, a big thanks for your work on crack-attack, even if i don't play
it by a very long time. I have been an addicted in the past and now
I try to use it with moderation :)

Best wishes,
   Antonio Ospite.

[1]
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/crack-attack-devel/2005-05/msg00000.html

[2]
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4038.txt

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