packet generator

Hi there,

without more info its hard to know what you want to generate. If you just want a steady flow of traffic why not use chargen - telnet to port 19. Probably doesnt work with winblowz and Solaris/linux you have to enable the port /etc/services

HTH

Matt

So chargen too basic. Sorry didnt really see what you were looking for.

Heres a good one :
http://manimac.itd.nrl.navy.mil/MGEN/

And here are some that friends have recommended.

ippacket is a command line/curses utility to construct IP/TCP/UDP/ICMP packets on a Linux system. Homepage: <>Download:

UDPFlood is a UDP packet sender. It sends out UDP packets to the specified IP and port at a controllable rate. Packets can be made from a typed text string, a given number of random bytes or data from a file.
http://www.foundstone.com/rdlabs/termsofuse.php?filename=udpflood.zip

Rude package consists of two programs: RUDE and CRUDE. RUDE stands for "Real-time" UDP Data Emitter and CRUDE for Collector for RUDE. RUDE is a small and flexible program that generates traffic to the network, which can be received and logged on the other side of the network with the CRUDE. If you are familiar with the MGEN traffic generator utility then you will know how to use these programs too. This package is distributed under the GPL and the version 0.50 is the first public release. Homepage:

SendIP is a commandline tool to send arbitrary IP packets. It has a large number of command line options to specify the content of every header of a TCP, UDP, ICMP, or raw IP packet. It also allows any data to be added to the packet. Checksums can be calculated automatically, but if you wish to send out wrong checksums, that is supported too. Homepage: Download:

http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/~arni/linux/tg1.html

Most companies seem to develop there own internal ones like we did at Shiva but relies on things like hosed being ported to you current flavour of Linux...

HTH Matt