Re: [Off-Topic] Announcing "Ostinato" - packet generator and analyzer

[Srivats P <pstavirs () gmail com>]

Hi,

Can you please add "Ostinato" to the "Related Projects" page?

Regards,
Srivats

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Srivats P <pstavirs () gmail com> wrote:
> 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.