Re: Generating Dropped Packets

[Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang () jpaves de>]

Hi,

Noonan, Wesley wrote:
> [..] I am trying to generate traffic that will be
> dropped out of hand by both switches and routers. The nature of the packet
> (fragment, giant, etc.) isn't as important to me as the ability of the
> switch/router to recognize that the packet needs to be dropped.
> Products/tools that are Windows based are preferred, though Linux and/or
> Solaris are acceptable as well [..]

a packet that would be silently dropped by a router could be an
ICMP "time exceeded" packet where the ttl count reaches 0.
By setting the start value for ttl you decide after how many hops
you want your packet to be dropped.  A tool to create these would
be hping (on Unix/Linux, see http://www.kyuzz.org/antirez/hping.html).

To have your packet dropped by a switch would require some illegal
values for your media to be set, e.g. an illegal frame size on ethernet.
Don't know of a tool to create these, and i'm not sure if every network
interface would actually be able to create such a frame.

Wolfgang Zenker
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