[Xorp-hackers] [OT] Traffic generator/simulator

[Pavlin Radoslavov]

> i'm a bit OT this time, but i was looking for a network traffic  
> generator/simulator
> to use with XORP and i thought you would know this topic better tha me.
> So if you have any suggestions, i'll greatly appreciate it.

Paolo,

Have you looked into MGEN (he Multi-Generator Toolset)?
http://tang.itd.nrl.navy.mil/5522/mgen/mgen_index.html

I have used it for generation of multicast UDP data packets, and it
seems to work quite nicely for both IPv4 and IPv6.

If you want to generate protocol-specific packets, then you may want
to look into the libnet packet construction library:
http://www.packetfactory.net/projects/libnet/

Also, there is the Traffic Generator from ISI, but I haven't tried
it yet:
http://www.postel.org/tg/tg.htm

Regards,
Pavlin