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<SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN> <SPAN ID="hue54">Features</SPAN></A>
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<SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN> <SPAN ID="hue56">Requirements</SPAN></A>
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<LI><SPAN ID="hue59">Full TCP/IP support, including IP fragments and
TCP stream reassembly.</SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN ID="hue61">Support replaying TCP and UDP flows.</SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN ID="hue63">Code should handle each flow/service independently.</SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN ID="hue65">Should be able to connect to the server(s) in the
pcap file or to a user specified IP address.</SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN ID="hue67">Support a plug-in architecture to allow adding application
layer intelligence.</SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN ID="hue69">Plug-ins must be able to support multi-flow protocols
like FTP.</SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN ID="hue366">Ship with a default plug-in which will work ``well
enough'' for simple single-flow protocols like HTTP and telnet.</SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN ID="hue367">Flows being replayed ``correctly'' is more important
then performance (Mbps).</SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN ID="hue75">Portable to run on common flavors of Unix and Unix-like
systems.</SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN ID="hue81">Support clients connecting to flowreplay on a limited
basis. Flowreplay would replay the server side of the connection.</SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN ID="hue83">Support other IP based traffic (ICMP, VRRP, OSPF,
etc) via plug-ins.</SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN ID="hue85">Support non-IP traffic (ARP, STP, CDP, etc) via
plug-ins.</SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN ID="hue87">Limit which flows are replayed using user defined
filters. (bpf filter syntax?)</SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN ID="hue89">Process pcap files directly with no intermediary
file conversions.</SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN ID="hue91">Should be able to scale to pcap files in the 100's
of MB in size and 100+ simultaneous flows on a P3 500MHz w/ 256MB
of RAM.</SPAN>
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