Network chatter generator

Fri Feb 23 17:54:37 UTC 2024

scapy?

On 2024-02-23 10:33, Brandon Martin wrote:
> Before I go to the trouble of making one myself, does anybody happen 
> to know of a pre-canned program to generate realistic and scalable 
> amounts of broadcast/broad-multicast network background "chatter" seen 
> on typical consumer and business networks?  This would be things like 
> lots of ARP traffic to/from various sources/destinations within a 
> subnet, SSDP, MDNS-SD, SMB browser traffic, DHCP requests, etc.?
>
> Ideally, said tool would have knobs to control the amount of traffic 
> and whether a given type of traffic is present.
>
> This is mostly for torture testing "IoT" type devices by exposing them 
> to lots of diverse, essentially nonsense traffic that they're likely 
> to see in a real environment.
>
> -- 
> Brandon Martin
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