full-disclosure - Re: Stress Testing Tools

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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:55:24 +0200 (CEST)
From: Xavier Mertens <xavier@...tshell.be>
To: Sec Tools <sectools@...dmail.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Stress Testing Tools

John,

A few weeks ago, I configured a lab to stress-test "security" devices like IDS.
It's based on Tomahawk (http://tomahawk.sourceforge.net/). It has not been updated for a while 
(like the other tools you mentioned) but it worked well.

/x

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On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Sec Tools wrote:

> I've been using a combination of Mausezahn (
> http://www.perihel.at/sec/mz/index.html ), Tcpreplay (
> http://tcpreplay.synfin.net ) and some times Scapy (
> http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/ ) for our 1G/10G network stress
> testing needs ( mostly for probing and checking the resilience of new
> network appliances ). 
> 
> I noted that these tools were not updated recently (for one year aprox).
> Do you guys have any suggestions on better approaches / really good new
> tools to do this? ( note that currently our budget does not allow the
> use of hardware based solutions ).
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> John James
> http://sectools.org/ 
> 
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