Re: traffic creation

["Ventsislav Genchev" <vigour1 () gmail com>]

If you need just to test the firewall rules and if they apply
correctly, you better use nmap from an outside box. Try to scan the
web server with a port range being used by the services on your inside
box. e.g. 1-1024.

Cheers,
Ventsi

On 9/16/07, Oğuz Yarımtepe <comp.ogz () gmail com> wrote:
> On Monday 10 September 2007 10:54:09 you wrote:
> > Well if I was testing an environment I would use nessus first to check
> > whatever I can with it (see nessus here:
> > http://dir.rct.co.il/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=22&mode=&order=
> > 0&thold=0 ) but you can also use nmap to port scan in various ways the
> > environment there are other programs but they are service specific for the
> > most part, I would also use httrack ( see httrack here
> > http://dir.rct.co.il/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=20&mode=&order=
> > 0&thold=0 ) to send web traffic to the web site. there are also tools to
> > test other services I would gladly help just tell me what you need.
>
> Well, i will use ftp, time, mail, dns and web server in my test environmet.
> Instead of using a tool for each it may be nicer to use a program that will
> generate a traffic for all. So what i want is to generate a network traffic
> and maybe increase the traffic and see the firewall resistance, or test the
> rules by checking which packages passed which dont. And if possible to create
> some pie charts or graphs.
>
> I saw some traffic generators on the net. Some are working on win machines, my
> test lab is composed of Debian machines so i prefer an opens source solution.
>
> I am seraching now the open source traffic generators but some advice my help.
>
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > Liran Cohen
> >
> > http://dir.rct.co.il
>
> Thanx.
>
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