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Re: Network chatter generator
From: Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 14:04:57 +0000
Keysight’s Ixea Line of traffic generators with concurrent monitoring are industrial grade tools for certification testing. I’ve used them to simulate thousands of WiFi users to validate an 400 node access point deployment at a major airport. Not cheap but has all the knobs and dials you’re looking for. You can also rent them. -mel On Feb 24, 2024, at 8:43 AM, Jesse DuPont <jesse.dupont () celeritycorp net> wrote: I believe you can do most of what you want using a Mikrotik and its Traffic Generator. Packet templates can be crafted mimic any of the popular protocols (L2, L3, L4), at least at the header level, with less flexibility on the payload legitimacy. On 2/23/24 10:33 AM, 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)