RE: Generating Traffic to Stress Test IDS

From: Simon Edwards (SEdwards@toplayer.com)
Date: 01/24/02 

From: Simon Edwards <SEdwards@toplayer.com>
To: 'Chad Gough' <chad131@yahoo.com>, focus-ids@lists.securityfocus.com
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:47:21 -0500

I can certainly recommend a new IDS testing tool called IDS Informer by
Blade Software - it is a commercial one, but it has 100's of attack
signatures in a NetMon capture style format, and you can change the dest and
source addresses as needed .. they site is http://www.blade-software.com./
and I seem to remember they do an evaluation copy.

We use it all the time with our IDS Balancer and it's a lot easier than
having to run scanners or actual exploits

Hope of use

Cheers

Simon

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chad Gough [mailto:chad131@yahoo.com]
Sent: 24 January 2002 15:27
To: focus-ids@lists.securityfocus.com
Subject: Generating Traffic to Stress Test IDS

Does anyone know of any good tools that can generate alot of network
traffic to see at what point an IDS starts dropping packets?

Thanks,
Chad

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