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 Windows and Linux (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
* User defined script to substitute for an unimplemented protocol
(EXPERIMENTAL)
* 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 Wireshark community to participate in and
contribute to Osintato 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)
I look forward to your feedback, queries and bugs on the mailing list
- ostinato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Srivats P.
Developer, Ostinato