Re: [Duplicity-talk] Network Fuzzing Tool

[Kenneth Loafman]

Thanks.  I run the same version and had not looked at team.  Makes sense
it would end up there.  That's just what I need.

...Ken

Maurizio Vitale wrote:
> 
> On Mar 12, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 
>> I use VMware Workstation v6 and they've taken it out of the network
>> setup, otherwise, that would be my first choice.  Under v3 and v4 there
>> used to be a way to set up hubs, subnets, speed, and quality from the
>> network setup tool, but that's been gone since v5, and I'm just not keen
>> on trying to get an older version running on the newer Linux.
>>
> I've 6.5.1 and it definitely has the capability of setting up LAN segments.
> I haven't used it and I don't know where it was in previous version,
> but if you set up a team and edit the settings, one f the tabs
> you get is called LAN segments. There you can define new ones
> with bandwidths and error rates.
> Once that's done you can attach network adapters to them (from the
> connection tab).
> 
>> I usually start RedHat and a Windows XP VMs for testing.  FTP gets
>> tested on both Linux and XP servers, ProFTPd and Filezilla (sp?).  The
>> rest of the protocols get tested on Amazon and rsync.net.  The only
>> one's I can't test are HSI and IMAP, so I hope I don't have to support
>> too many problems with them.
>>
>> ...Ken
>>
>> Maurizio Vitale wrote:
>>> if you use virtual machines on vmwire you can create network segments
>>> and
>>> set latency, bandwidth and error rate for each segment individually.
>>>
>>> Even if you need delays/error between two physical machines it is
>>> probably easier
>>> to put a VM between them.
>>>
>>> I don't know if the free vmware server allows this, but if you use it
>>> for work the $200 for vmware
>>> workstation are very well spent.
>>>
>>> I'm not familiar with the free virtualization solutions available. They
>>> may very well be able to do the same.
>>>
>>> Maurizio Vitale
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>>> On Mar 12, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm looking for a network fuzzing tool, at least I think that's what
>>>> they're called.  What I want is a tool to introduce n% errors or even
>>>> timeouts into the network for testing, where n can be adjusted.  Does
>>>> anyone know of a good one to use?  have experience with any of them?
>>>>
>>>> I suppose I could write my own, but would prefer a known good test
>>>> agent.  I have an odd "curse" for test purposes, I can literally go
>>>> weeks without seeing a network error.  Makes it kind of difficult to
>>>> test error handling, and this is where most of the problems occur.
>>>>
>>>> ...Thanks,
>>>> ...Ken
>>>>
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