Gerald Combs

I just noticed that we missed an opportunity to celebrate 30 years of "It's the Latency, Stupid" this past May: https://www.stuartcheshire.org/rants/latency.html

#Wireshark 4.6.7 has been released. Cheers! These releases are brought to you by the Wireshark Foundation. If you or your employer can donate, it would help us out immensely. https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.6.7.html https://wiresharkfoundation.org/donate/

@bagder@mastodon.social To provide some context, we've issued about 10 - 30 advisories per year in recent years so this is a lot for us. No idea if it's a lot for similarly sized projects (we're at ~6.6M LoC).

In the networking world at least, the numbers that you are allowed work with jump from uselessly small (8 and 16 bits) to dangerously large (32 and 64 bits).

I'm at #SharkFest this week and someone brought in a vintage protocol analyzer. As you can see, looking at network traffic used to require gear that was a) specialized and b) heavy. Looking back I suspect that I got my start in networking because my manager didn't want to lug a heavyass Sniffer around our university campus so he handed the job off to the nearest twentysomething with a strong back.