There are a number of packet genarators/forgers/injectors. nemesis is a command-line UNIX network packet injection suite.
http://www.packetfactory.net/Projects/nemesis/ hping is the TCP/IP packets swiss army knife http://www.hping.org/ Adrien ----- Original Message ----- > My company has a COTS (Commercial Off-the-shelf) product that can send > malformed Ethernet packets and this was causing a production router to lock > up. Is there any such software that can run either on Linux (preferable) or on > a Windows platform that can do this? We don't want hackers to be able to lock > up our router by this method and I want to check how readily available any > such software might be. > > Can anyone recommend an application to run on Linux that will send > customized Ethernet and IP packets? I need to be able to test a system and I > want to be able to send abnormal Ethernet and IP packets to ensure our router > and server are able to handle any type of attacks. Prefereably an application > to run on Linux would be best but I could also run this from a Windows 2000 > machine. > > Suggestions? > > Thanks, > > AH >
