RFC2321 RITA -- The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent. [c. 1998/03/01]

RFC1575 An Echo Function for CLNP (ISO 8473). [c. 1994/02/01]

RFC2398 Some Testing Tools for TCP Implementors. [c. 1998/08/01]

RFC1393 Traceroute Using an IP Option. [c. 1993/01/01]

RFC2075 IP Echo Host Service. [c. 1997/01/01]

RFC1761 Snoop Version 2 Packet Capture File Format. [c. 1995/02/01]

RFC2330 Framework for IP Performance Metrics. [c. 1998/05/01]

RFC1470 FYI on a Network Management Tool Catalog: Tools for Monitoring and Debugging TCP/IP Internets and Interconnected Devices. [c. 1993/06/01]

RFC1944 Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices. [c. 1996/05/01]

RFC2285 Benchmarking Terminology for LAN Switching Devices. [c. 1998/02/01]

RFC1273 Measurement Study of Changes in Service-Level Reachability in the Global TCP/IP Internet: Goals, Experimental Design, Implementation, and Policy Considerations. [ 1991/11/01]

RFC1262 Guidelines for Internet Measurement Activities. [ 1991/10/01]

RFC1259 Building the open road: The NREN as test-bed for the national public network. [ 1991/09/01]

RFC1242 Benchmarking terminology for network interconnection devices. [ 1991/07/01]

RFC1025 TCP and IP bake off. [ 1987/09/01]

RFC0862 Echo Protocol. [ 1983/05/01]

RFC0864 Character Generator Protocol. [ 1983/05/01]

RFC0863 Discard Protocol. [ 1983/05/01]

RFC0429 Character Generator Process. [ 1972/12/12]

Advances in Network Simulation ( Lee Breslau, Deborah Estrin, Kevin Fall, Sally Floyd, John Heidemann, Ahmed Helmy, Polly Huang, Steven McCanne, Kannan Varadhan, Ya Xu, Haobo Yu ; IEEE Computer Magazine 2000-05)

BTU: A Host Communication Benchmark ( Kurt J. Maly, Ajay K. Gupta, Satish Mynam ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1998-05)

Modeling and Distributed Simulation of a Broadband-ISDN Network ( Arthur Chai, Sumit Ghosh ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1993-09)

Gigabit Network Testbeds ( ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1990-09)

Packet Generation under Linux? [2002/03/21]

uustat(1) - UUCP status inquiry and control {oss}

nc(1) - Arbitrary tcp and udp connections and listens. {oss}

ipresend(1) - resend IP packets out to network {oss}

ipsend(1) - sends IP packets {oss}

iptest(1) - automatically generate a packets to test IP functionality {oss}

ping(8) - send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts {oss}

tcpdump(8) - dump traffic on a network {oss}

netstat(1) - show network status {oss}

iostat(8) - report I/O statistics {oss}

traceroute(8) - print the route packets take to network host {oss}

trpt(8) - transliterate protocol trace {oss}

trsp(8) - transliterate sequenced packet protocol trace {oss}

spray(8) - send many packets to host {oss}

sprayd rpc.sprayd(8) - spray server {oss}

ttcp-1.12 - Benchmarking tool for analysing TCP and UDP performance

sendip-1.4 - SendIP is a commandline tool to allow sending arbitrary IP packets

ns-2.1.b7 - The UCB/LBNL Network Simulator Version 2

fragrouter-1.6 - Tool for testing network IDS implementations

arping-1.00 - ARP level "ping" utility

netpipe-2.3 - A self-scaling network benchmark

obnc-20020222 - OpenBSD's netcat: cleaner code, familiar interface, IPv6 support

cnet-1.7.7 - A networking simulator

ipsorc-1.5 - A tool to create and send IP packets with a graphical GTK front-end

p5-POE-Component-Client-Ping-0.95 - POE component for non-blocking/concurrent ICMP ping

p5-POE-Component-Pcap-0.03 - POE component for non-blocking use of Net::Pcap

rain-1.2.9.b1 - Rain is a packeting tool used for testing system stability

tcpslice-2002.04.15 - A tool for extracting portions of pcap files

dbs-1.1.5 - A distributed network benchmarking system.

snooper-1999.12.02_1 - Serial line protocol analyzer (need two serial interfaces)

fping-2.2b1 - Quickly ping N hosts w/o flooding the network

strobe-1.06 - Fast scatter/gather TCP port scanner

getethers - find IP addrs for all local ether addrs {oss}

mtr - Network diagnostic tool {GPL}

rand - random pipe {GPL}

karpski - Network sniffer/scanner with a GTK interface {x,GPL}

Gnusniff - A packet sniffer for Linux using GNOME. {x,GPL}

Xtraceroute - OpenGL traceroute {x,GPL}

ICMPush - ICMPush is a tool that builds ICMP packets fully customized from command line. {GPL}

Network and Internet Tools for Linux CD

EPAN {free to use but restricted}

net-tools - Programs that form the base set of the NET-3 networking distribution

pcap_open_live pcap_open_offline pcap_dump_open errbuf pcap_lookupdev pcap_lookupnet pcap_dispatch pcap_loop pcap_dump pcap_inject pcap_immediate pcap_compile int pcap_setfilter pcap_datalink pcap_snapshot pcap_is_swapped pcap_major_version pcap_minor_ver - Packet Capture library {oss}

p5-Net-RawIP-0.09d - A perl module to manipulate raw IP packets

Net::Ping - Lets your programs "ping" a host -- that is, see whether it's up and how much time it takes packets to get there and back. [Perl] {oss}

Net::SSLeay - An interface to Netscape's SSL (Secure Socket Layer). By Eric A. Young, hence "eay". [Perl] {oss}

libpcap - A system-independent interface for user-level packet capture.

Libraries and Functions

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