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Re: Packet generation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hans-Werner Braun)
Fri Dec 12 15:56:34 1997

Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 12:30:35 -0800
From: Hans-Werner Braun <hwb@rwac.ucsd.edu>
To: Jefferson Burson <jburson@tivoli.com>
Cc: "Todd M. Wilkinson" <tmwilkin@appliedtheory.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.971211153143.4144A-100000@waller.dev.tivoli.com>; from Jefferson Burson on Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 03:32:27PM -0600


Yeah, it really kinda depends on what he wants. If he wants fairly
realistic traffic, one could probably write a packet generator fairly
easily, that turns packet traces into traffic. If one has access to raw
packet generating. The traces we have are generally src/dst encoded to
protect privacy. Really depends on what's needed.

> On solaris, spray is pretty good. I guess it depends on what you mean by
> lots and lots of IP traffic.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Todd M. Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 	Any of you folks know of a good utility to generate lots and lots 
> > 	of IP traffic.  I am looking for something that will run on NT
> > 	or a Solaris box.
> > 
> > 
> > -Todd Wilkinson
> > -tmwilkin@appliedthoery.com
> > 
> 

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