Nathan Ward wrote: > Hire/buy what I know as a router tester. People call them different things. > It's a device that generates packets,
Linux has a packet generator in the kernel as well. More info readily available from your local search engine. > and can normally simulate TCP etc. all the way up to HTTP etc. or higher. > BGP, OSPF, MPLS, etc. etc. etc. > Hmmm. What about a fuzzer, or something like scapy? > Tell it to generate packets that look like they come from many many hosts > (you can normally simulate some kind of network topology with hosts in > different places and hence different TTLs etc.), and viola. > They normally let you generate background noise traffic, or you could record > 24 hours of packet headers from somewhere in your network and play it back > through your test network. This needs a lot of disk of course. > tcpreplay is great for that.
