Excellent suggestion Alex. I'm pretty sure that would work. On Jan 25, 2008 12:27 PM, Alexander Dupuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have only one machine for this, you might want to look into using > a VM system such as VMware or Xen or QEMU to create a virtual machine, > which you can feed packets into from tcpreplay using the virtual MAC of > the client system and the virtual network (with VMware this might be > vmnet1 or vmnet8; I'm not sure with Xen or QEMU). While the packets > will still be tracked as local on the host system (and thus bypass > filters) inside the OS on the client VM system, they will appear to be > external. > > If you try this approach I would be interested in hearing how it goes, > as I may need to do something similar (for a different reason - I have a > VM-based system that needs to capture all traffic from an interface in > promiscuous mode, but in order to force it through the virtual bridge, I > may have to use tcpreplay to edit the destination MAC addresses. > > @alex > > -- > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Tcpreplay-users mailing list > Tcpreplay-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tcpreplay-users >
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