Network chatter generator

Sat Feb 24 14:17:31 UTC 2024

Here's some tools that I've used to stress test gear over the years. You 
may or may not find some of them useful for your use case:

(1) T50 - be *really* careful with this one:
     - Source: https://gitlab.com/fredericopissarra/t50
(2) Yersina (can be used for DHCP stress testing)
     - Source: https://github.com/tomac/yersinia
     - Useful info for DHCP-specific stress testing: 
https://www.amirootyet.com/post/dhcp-dos-attack-with-yersinia-in-kali/
(3) wrk - L7 endpoint load testing - I typically use an Ansible playbook 
to generate artificial load from multiple source systems, which also 
allows you to consolidate the stdout reporting from each system
     - Source: https://github.com/wg/wrk

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-G

On 2024-02-23 17:33, 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.
> 
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> Brandon Martin