The Ixia product requires their custom hardware chassis. You can sometimes
get one for evaluation if you're a potential major customer. If you're not
a large customer, you're talking MAJOR $$$ for the IXIA solution. The list
price for a full function dual gig-ethernet card is $15,000 (no decimal
points in that number). They have a "stripped down" version of the card
suitable for merely blasting packets in the $10,000 range. One point in
their favor, they work! and I mean really do work, full rate line speed
with tricks and treats.

--------------------------------------------
Scott Cothrell
Senior Engineer
Cisco Systems, Austin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: simon chan [mailto:simonredsentry.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 3:29 AM
> To: Greg Shipley; sstoverhushmail.com
> Cc: focus-idssecurityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: traffic generator
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I couldn't download any evaluation from
> IXIA and Spirent websites.
>
> Is there any freeware version ?
>
> Rgds,
>
> Simon
>
>
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 03:07:26 -0500 (CDT)
> Greg Shipley <gshipleyneohapsis.com> wrote:
> > *This message was transferred with a trial version of
> > CommuniGate(tm) Pro*
> >
> > 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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