Re: Network chatter generator

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

I came to suggest this. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
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Midwest-IX 
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----- Original Message -----

From: "Jesse DuPont" <jesse.dupont () celeritycorp net> 
To: "Brandon Martin" <lists.nanog () monmotha net>, nanog () nanog org 
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2024 12:17:28 PM 
Subject: Re: Network chatter generator 

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. 

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Brandon Martin