On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 sstoverhushmail.com wrote:

> Are there really "many others?" I've used WCAT, Hailstorm and httperf for
> application and netperf, SmartBits, etc. for raw traffic, but I haven't
> seen any really awesome tools for generating high-bandwidth valid traffic
> in an all-in-one solution. Both Hailstorm and WCAT are a bit slow for Gig
> testing, if you only have one system. With httperf, it was a bit easier,
> but still not what I would call high-bandwidth.

I'm a little late in my response, but IMHO, yeah, there are a ton of tools
out there. Unfortunately, many of them suck. :) The original question
was about HTTP load generators, and I know I dug up at least a dozen of
those when I was mucking around with them a year ago.

For general traffic generation, I know one of Spirent's competitors is
IXIA (see http://www.ixiacom.com/) I know a few vendors use IXIA in their
labs for massive packet blasting. I, unfortunately, don't have any
experience with the IXIA units.

> I heard a rumour that Spirent (Netcom/SmartBits acquirer) was coming
> out with a new application called WebFlow that could generate
> application traffic at high rates, but haven't seen it yet. Does
> anyone have any other tools that they use for testing?

Yeah, Spirent has a few apps that can be useful for security product
testing. You might want to check out SmartTCP and WebSuite/Firewall, for
example. Slightly off-topic, but they also just announced a VPN testing
product. You can find most of the test applications listed here:

http://www.netcomsystems.com/solutions/software.asp

We (Neohapsis) are looking to build some IDS-specific tests for the
SmartBits platform, but I don't envision these being done until the end of
this summer. We just received the new 6x platform in-house, and are
playing with it as I type this...

Hope this helps,

-Greg

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