On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 11:31:25AM -0600, xbud wrote: > Hi Dale, > > Stress testing networks can be quite tedious depending on what type of 'real > simulation' you have to abide by. > If you have a budget take a look at an appliance called 'Flame Thrower' I > forget who the vendor is ATM, but it was complete in regaurds to stress > testing IDS's. We used it at my old company about 2 years ago, and I'm sure > it has been enhanced since.
It looks marvelous. But at $80K for the box... however they will do on site testing at $2500/day. Might be a bit much but the decision is not mine, I just pass on the suggestions. It does look like a hellishly powerful test capability though. ttp://www.antara.net/ > If you have no budget and are just looking for a cheap solution (free > opensource tools) then 'wget' for ftp / web traffic and tcpdump + tcpreplay > are your friends with -nl options (this breaks real network traffic > ofcourse). I wrote several tools about 2 years ago ( I had just started > coding then so excuse the poor code heh but they worked for me back then ;) > SAT Tools on PacketStorm if you want to look at them. I may well have to cobble something together like you and a few other kind responders have suggested. > *Note - These are probably not feasable for dns stressing. And DNS is one of my worries. 1000 DNS queries in the first 1 minute is a distinct possibility.
