Network chatter generator

Fri Feb 23 18:02:28 UTC 2024

On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 19:42, Brandon Martin <lists.nanog at monmotha.net> 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.?

For protocol fuzzing I've used 'Codenomicon', which since has been
acquired by synopsys: (this is about trying to offer various type of
bad PDUs to protocol)
https://www.synopsys.com/software-integrity/security-testing/fuzz-testing.html

For volumetric protocol testing I've used 'Spirent Avalanche':  (this
is more like https or imaps users etc)
https://www.spirent.com/products/avalanche-security-testing

There are other commercial options in this space and I'm not familiar
with recent developments.

Not sure if either really fit your bill. I guess you could ask someone
with a chatty LAN to record it, and play the pcap back.

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