Network Packet Generator

Traffic Generator Tool

NAMEtrafgen - a fast, multithreaded network packet generatorSYNOPSIStrafgen optionsDESCRIPTIONtrafgen is a fast, zero-copy network traffic generator for debugging,performance evaluation, and fuzz-testing. Trafgen utilizes the (7)socket interface of Linux which postpones complete control over packet dataand packet headers into the user space. It has a powerful packet configurationlanguage, which is rather low-level and not limited to particular protocols.Thus, trafgen can be used for many purposes. Its only limitation is that itcannot mimic full streams resp.

However, it is very useful forvarious kinds of load testing in order to analyze and subsequently improvesystems behaviour under DoS attack scenarios, for instance.