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Re: TCP stack smashing


From: "crazy frog crazy frog" <i.m.crazy.frog () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:39:38 +0530

PROTOS test suit??

On 3/15/07, R. DuFresne <dufresne () sysinfo com> wrote:
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On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Nicolas RUFF wrote:

>> I am looking for a tool that can be used to stress the tcp implementation
>> on our web/application server. I remember there used to be a tool called
>> EvilTCP that could be integrated
>> into the bsd/linux kernel to emulate a bad TCP implementation. However I
>> cannot find it on google. Can anybody help with this or do you know of any
>> similar utility that I can use to make malformed TCP transactions
>> (request/response).
>
> Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but the ISIC tools
> collection (and namely TCPSIC) can flood your server with bad TCP fragments.
>

If I recall, having played with those years ago, if used aggessivly, and
merely mildly aggessivly, there was not a TCP stack we could find that did
not get hosed to a state requiring a reboot to recover from.  Those are
not tools to be played in production envs fer sure.


Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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