Traffic Generator for User Defined Payload and to Replay Pcap Files

Abstract

Traffic generation is the process of creating packets and injecting it in the network in a controlled way. Traffic generator tools are used for realistic replication of internet workload, to evaluate the network performance, for testing of networks. Various traffic generator tools are available today some of them work to generate only malicious traffic. Malicious traffic is nothing but the traffic anomalies that occur to the network packets. Such traffic generators could be used to create various attack models, for testing of network intrusion detection tools. In this paper we have described one such malicious traffic generator tool with ability to replay pcap files.