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Re: Network chatter generator
From: G <lists () 1337 io>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 14:17:31 +0000
Here's some tools that I've used to stress test gear over the years. You may or may not find some of them useful for your use case:
(1) T50 - be *really* careful with this one: - Source: https://gitlab.com/fredericopissarra/t50 (2) Yersina (can be used for DHCP stress testing) - Source: https://github.com/tomac/yersinia- Useful info for DHCP-specific stress testing: https://www.amirootyet.com/post/dhcp-dos-attack-with-yersinia-in-kali/ (3) wrk - L7 endpoint load testing - I typically use an Ansible playbook to generate artificial load from multiple source systems, which also allows you to consolidate the stdout reporting from each system
- Source: https://github.com/wg/wrk -- -G On 2024-02-23 17:33, Brandon Martin wrote:
Before I go to the trouble of making one myself, does anybody happen to know of a pre-canned program to generate realistic and scalable amounts of broadcast/broad-multicast network background "chatter" seen on typical consumer and business networks? This would be things like lots of ARP traffic to/from various sources/destinations within a subnet, SSDP, MDNS-SD, SMB browser traffic, DHCP requests, etc.?Ideally, said tool would have knobs to control the amount of traffic and whether a given type of traffic is present.This is mostly for torture testing "IoT" type devices by exposing them to lots of diverse, essentially nonsense traffic that they're likely to see in a real environment.-- Brandon Martin
Current thread:
- Network chatter generator Brandon Martin (Feb 23)
- Re: Network chatter generator Raymond Burkholder (Feb 23)
- Re: Network chatter generator Saku Ytti (Feb 23)
- Re: Network chatter generator Jesse DuPont (Feb 24)
- Re: Network chatter generator Mel Beckman (Feb 24)
- Re: Network chatter generator Mike Hammett (Feb 24)
- Re: Network chatter generator Brandon Martin (Feb 25)
- Re: Network chatter generator Forrest Christian (List Account) (Feb 25)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Network chatter generator G (Feb 25)
- Re: Network chatter generator Jason Healy via NANOG (Feb 26)