Ostinato aims to be "Wireshark in Reverse" and thus become complementary to Wireshark. Get Ostinato and take it for a spin to see what it can actually do for you!
Here are some key features of "Ostinato":
· Custom packet crafting with any field editing support for several protocols - L2: Ethernet, 802.3, LLC SNAP, VLAN (with Q-in-Q) L3: ARP, IPv4, IPv6, IP-in-IP (a.k.a IP Tunneling) L4: TCP, UDP, ICMPv4, ICMPv6 L5: HTTP, SIP, RTSP, NNTP etc.
· Useful for both functional and performance testing.
Requirements:
· WinPcap
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Improved maximum traffic generation rates (pps);
· Windows - upto 60x
· Reduced time taken to "apply" changes to stream(s)
· Added support for "Pkts/Sec" and "Bytes/Sec" rate stats on Linux
· Added support for transmit rates less than 1 pps
· Added support for nanosecond resolution while calculating inter-packet gaps
· Added support for average/aggregate port rate
· Added a new "Interleaved Streams" transmission mode
· Integrated newer version of QHexEdit widget - HexDump protocol edit now supports copy-paste and undo-redo
· Major bugfix: (Windows Only) Tx Pkts were looped back to Rx on same port