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diff --git a/net-mgmt/tcpreplay/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/tcpreplay/pkg-descr deleted file mode 100644 index 4740f222ec7b..000000000000 --- a/net-mgmt/tcpreplay/pkg-descr +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -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. - -Tcpprep is tcpreplay with patches can send traffic out two network cards, -however it requires the calculations be done in real-time. These calculations -can be expensive and can significantly reduce the throughput of tcpreplay. - -tcpprep is a libpcap pre-processor for tcpreplay which enables this -feature in tcpreplay, and significantly increases throughput through -the use of a cache file. - -WWW: http://synfin.net/aturner/tcpreplay/ |