[Pdx-pm] Custom Ethernet frames

[Austin Schutz]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 06:37:46PM -0700, Jason Annin-White wrote:
> Some associates of mine would like to put a couple of high end boxes on either side of a router and simulate a high traffic network so we can gather some statistics and do some tests.  We would like to create Ethernet frames that carry various protocols, but would settle for just IP packets.  It would require that the frames contained custom MAC addresses so we can simulate hundreds of sources and destinations.
> 
> Can anybody point out a useful perl module or opensource test suite for this task?
> 
> Jason White

	AFAIK there is no such tool. You might try using Inline with the
C library 'libnet', which is also used as the basis for tcpdump, etc.
	Of course I'm probably wrong as usual and someone has already written
a Perl interface for it.

	http://www.packetfactory.net/libnet

	Austin