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[Off-Topic] Announcing "Ostinato" - packet generator and analyzer
From: Srivats P <pstavirs () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:51:38 +0530
Ostinato <http://ostinato.googlecode.com/> Ostinato is an open source, cross platform packet/traffic generator and analyzer with a friendly GUI. A stated goal for the project is to be "Wireshark in Reverse" and thus become complementary to Wireshark Features * Runs on both Linux and Windows (Will probably run on other platforms also with little or no modification but this hasn't been tested) * Support for the most common standard protocols * Ethernet/802.3/LLC SNAP * VLAN (with QinQ) * IP, ARP * TCP, UDP, ICMP * More protocols in the works ... * Modify any field of any protocol (some protocols allow changing packet fields with every packet at run time e.g. changing IP/MAC addresses) * Stack protocols in any arbitrary order * (EXPERIMENTAL) User defined script to substitute for an unimplemented protocol * Create and configure multiple streams * Configure stream rates, bursts, no. of packets * Single client can control and configure multiple ports on multiple computers generating traffic * Exclusive control of a port to prevent the OS from sending stray packets provides a controlled testing environment * Statistics Window shows realtime port receive/transmit statistics and rates * Capture packets and view them (needs Wireshark to view the captured packets) * Framework to add new protocol builders easily A screencast showing basic usage is here - <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On64lQYEFlY> Screenshots are here - <http://code.google.com/p/ostinato/wiki/Screenshots> Binary (Win32 only) and source packages are available now for the 0.1 release. The wiki (http://code.google.com/p/ostinato/w/list) has * a User Guide to get you started (with a Quickstart section) * a HOWTO - write a (quick and dirty) script to substitue for a missing protocol * Developer documentation on how to add support for new protocols. I humbly invite the community to participate in and contribute to Ostinato development. Like Wireshark protocol dissectors, it is easy to add protocol builders to Ostinato - check out the HOWTO (http://code.google.com/p/ostinato/wiki/ProtocolBuilderHOWTO) Please do share your impressions and/or questions on the mailing list - ostinato () googlegroups com (for the next couple of days the list is configured so that anyone can post without needing to join) Srivats P. Developer, Ostinato - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
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