[ILUG] Tool to Generate backround TCP traffic?

[John Ronan]

On 01-Oct-99 Vincent Cunniffe wrote:
> ilug-admin at linux.ie wrote:
>> 
>> Any ideas folks?
> 
> What sort of traffic, exactly?
Basically "Noise"... don't particularly want to do anything just use up some
bandwidth in a somewhat random fashion...


> 
> Trying to generate a load on a remote machine? If it's got any
> services on it like FTP, NFS, or telnet, then just write a 
> script to do commandline calls to move files back and forth or
> to dump text into the telnet connection.
That's what I was thinking myself really..... 
> 
> Or possibly kick off multiple copies of ping with the frequency
> and payload tuned to the traffic level you require.
> 
> Vin

>See can you find "bing". "ping -f" generates a dose of ICMP traffic
>alright. Spray on solaris also does the trick.

>Kate

Cheers fellas..

J



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