Revision 19 of Mini Maxwell and Maxwell G is now in BETA

New packet filters have been added to Mini Maxwell and Maxwell G …

The revelation of the POODLE vulnerability demonstrated that SSL 3.0 should be disabled and removed from any products that still contain it. Companies taking this step include Twitter, Apple, EBay, Mozilla Firefox, Google, and PayPal.

When will others make the change to TLS 1.2? …

Joost van Dongen of Ronimo-Games blogged about how his team uses throttling to reduce network errors for the Awesomenauts online multiplayer game. First, IWL has a team of network protocol engineers and developers. We are not game developers! We would not presume to tell anyone how to design a game. It seems that we may have a “clash of contexts”, in that game developers and network protocol engineers start with different assumptions and contexts …

First time buyers are often startled by the price of complete turnkey protocol test suite products. They often wonder if it would be more cost efficient to make their own testing solution. Here are some things to consider when deciding whether or not to make your own TCP/IP Test Suite …

Do you know how SilverCreek compares against other SNMP Agent Test Tools? Find out what the expert learned using five of the available SNMP agent test tools. Not all of them found bugs! One reported false positives! …

Google does not seem to know how to test its autonomous car. In two presentations on the autonomous car, the word “test” is never mentioned. Multiple articles describing the autonomous car also omit testing. The focus is on the “coolness” factor and the number of miles driven. But how does the autonomous car become a fully tested, robust and reliable product that the general public can depend on? …

IWL used our Maxwell Pro TLS Test Suite to test one version of the GnuTLS library. It failed 39 out of 116 of our tests! …

The general public is now aware of something that we network plumbers have known for years: in many respects, the Internet is robust, but security is fragile. The Heartbleed SSL problem is estimated to cost millions of dollars. No one knows for sure when the next serious bug will show up and its ultimate price …

A subset of the Maxwell Pro TCP/IP tests were run against the most widely installed desktop Operating System with all known operating system updates applied as of October 1, 2013. The Major Operating System is listed in the Phase 2 Core Protocols IPv6 Ready Logo Program (a popular program to assure that IPv6 implementation will work correctly in the field). A summary of the results follows …