app flooding test

[hdm at metasploit.com (H D Moore)]

On Monday 07 July 2008, arthur wrote:
> Is msf/ruby is good for this (running on P4 1.0G laptop with Kubuntu
> 7.10). Is there any code I can use as template. 

For flooding, there aren't any existing examples, and the framework is 
probably not the best tool for the job in terms of how many 
messages/sockets you can push out.  Ruby by itself is pretty decent if 
you use the lower-level Socket API (as opposed to TCPSocket) -- you can 
do non-blocking connections and handles thousands of simultaneous 
messages/replies pretty easily. For concurrency, I would recommend fork() 
over the native Ruby threading in this case, it will add a ton of 
overhead if you are looking at ~1000 threads. 

> BTW, before reading the code of msf, there is any doc for development
> based on msf? Thanks. 

http://metasploit.com/framework/support/

-HD