Rhinovirus

Traffic Generator

The is a small program - developed by request from some of my peers - that can generate a few types of internet traffic at line speed. It has the following features:

• ~90%* line speed per protocol through a router.
• ~99% line speed per protocol through switches.
• Support for 8 protocols. (http, rtp, telnet, smtp, pop3, ftp, ssh, x11)
• Concurrent protocol traffic generation.

It’s operation is simple, you put the server on one computer, the client on another. when you start the server it prompts you to enter which protocols you want to host, set that and then you can forget it, the server will allow any TCP connections on that port but will discard any packets it receives. The client operates in the same fashion except you have to select a host and how many packets it will send before it disconnects and reconnects from the server; for UDP protocols this has no effect but for TCP protocols this means a brand new handshake, useful for testing QoS.

Future versions will be open source, feature a better user interface, and support for more protocols.

Download version 0.01.

* Conditional on the type of router and how much it uses QoS or shaping.