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| author | Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-11-29 02:29:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-11-29 02:29:03 +0000 |
| commit | c2b3abb02fe7382558662bbb890f03d863bea2f1 (patch) | |
| tree | c7c75c57a3b22c9b47ed2b90b9b5076b2def4d69 /net-mgmt/tcpreplay/pkg-descr | |
| parent | 07e035580da524e47bc13c841b732d63a292d271 (diff) | |
| download | ports-c2b3abb02fe7382558662bbb890f03d863bea2f1.tar.gz ports-c2b3abb02fe7382558662bbb890f03d863bea2f1.zip | |
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diff --git a/net-mgmt/tcpreplay/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/tcpreplay/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c63b49408891 --- /dev/null +++ b/net-mgmt/tcpreplay/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Tcpreplay is aimed at testing the performance of a Network Intrusion Detection +System by replaying real background network traffic in which to hide attacks. + +Tcpreplay allows you to control the speed at which the traffic is replayed, +and can replay arbitrary libpcap traces. + +Unlike programmatically-generated artificial traffic which doesn't exercise +the application/protocol inspection that a NIDS performs, and doesn't +reproduce the real-world anomalies that appear on production networks +(asymmetric routes, traffic bursts/lulls, fragmentation, retransmissions, +etc.), tcpreplay allows for exact replication of real traffic seen on real +networks. + +WWW: http://www.anzen.com/research/nidsbench/ |