PacketFu on Windows

Barely a week after I presented PacketFu, I got an idle question about PacketFu's usefulness on Windows.

Last night, while I was waiting for my brother and his family to drive up from Houston ahead of the Hurricane, I got to messing around with compiling PcapRub on Microsoft Vista and Windows XP. Much to my amazement, my goofy hacks worked. The rest of PacketFu is pure Ruby without C extensions or anything, so cross-platform love is already baked in there.

So, the latest revision of PacketFu seems to work fine on XP (I haven't tested the Vista machine yet). It works so well, in fact, that I duplicated the climax of my Lone Star RubyConf talk in the form of a Flash movie (link downloads the FLV, it's not embedded or anything).

How many other packet libraries have screencasts a week after they're built? ZERO, that's how many!