Osinato Classic - Win32

[Andrew M]

Hi Srivats,

We've been in contact related to this topic - I've posted this here as requested. I've been using actually quite an old version 0.8 as this supports the EVE-NG drone. Recently I wanted to purchase 1.3, however due to some unforeseen personal circumstances I had to make an emergency trip and didn't go through the checkout.

My use case is personal home labing to test industrial systems, etc. It's not used through a business as such and therefore I need an offline copy which is proven to work. 

Two questions:

1) WinCap 4 works perfectly fine but the description of the interfaces lack vs WinCap 5 (Installed through wireshark). However new WinCap is not well supported and causing some issues. Do you have any recommendations to get better description?

2) It's easy to spin up Ubuntu VM or barebones and installed Ostinato 1.3 to use without a cost. I can understand Ostinato 2.0 has been released to support the project moving forward, but based on this reason how come windows version 1.3 has been removed from purchase completely?

I can see the source code in github as well which is confusing me why there is no option for a purchase.

Thanks for your support, hope you can help.

Andrew

[Srivats P]

Hi Andrew,

 

My use case is personal home labing to test industrial systems, etc. It's not used through a business as such and therefore I need an offline copy which is proven to work. 

  Can you elaborate a bit more on your use case and topology? I’m curious what sort of traffic or setups you’re emulating, and why your home lab has no internet access - understanding that helps me suggest the best approach for you.  

 

Two questions:

1) WinCap 4 works perfectly fine but the description of the interfaces lack vs WinCap 5 (Installed through wireshark). However new WinCap is not well supported and causing some issues. Do you have any recommendations to get better description?

The last Winpcap release was 4.1.3 released in 2018 and is no longer developed or supported. The replacement is Npcap and by WinPcap 5 this is what you mean I guess.You can check npcap.com for newer releases which are released periodically.

Regarding the interface descriptions - please share a few screenshots from both Ostinato and Wireshark to better understand the issue.

Note - the primary reason for the interface name/description on Windows is that unlike Linux, Windows does not have canonical names for network interfaces - only GUIDs (which are not human friendly). Therefore any names exported by npcap or Ostinato/Wireshark are essentially trying to mitigate this fundamental Windows OS issue.

 

2) It's easy to spin up Ubuntu VM or barebones and installed Ostinato 1.3 to use without a cost. I can understand Ostinato 2.0 has been released to support the project moving forward, but based on this reason how come windows version 1.3 has been removed from purchase completely?

All official Ostinato 1.x (now called Classic) are no longer available for purchase - across all platforms and OS.

Ostinato installs on Ubuntu via apt install fetches the open-source version packaged by the Debian/Ubuntu package maintainer and not the official Ostinato Linux packages. There are no open-source community packages for Ostinato on Windows AFAIK.

 

I can see the source code in github as well which is confusing me why there is no option for a purchase.

Ostinato classic was open-source and hence the sources for that are still available on Github. You are free to download and build it yourself - however, you are on your own here as no build or technical support is available for this version.

Also, support for the Ostinato classic will end by Dec 31, 2025. 

I highly recommend you switch to the new and supported Ostinato 2.0.

 

Srivats

Founder, Ostinato