I came to suggest this.
From: "Jesse DuPont" <jesse.dupont@celeritycorp.net>
To: "Brandon Martin" <lists.nanog@monmotha.net>, nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2024 12:17:28 PM
Subject: Re: Network chatter generator
I believe you can do most of what you want
using a Mikrotik and its Traffic Generator. Packet templates can
be crafted mimic any of the popular protocols (L2, L3, L4), at
least at the header level, with less flexibility on the payload
legitimacy.
On 2/23/24 10:33 AM, Brandon Martin
wrote:
Before
I go to the trouble of making one myself, does anybody happen to
know of a pre-canned program to generate realistic and scalable
amounts of broadcast/broad-multicast network background "chatter"
seen on typical consumer and business networks? This would be
things like lots of ARP traffic to/from various
sources/destinations within a subnet, SSDP, MDNS-SD, SMB browser
traffic, DHCP requests, etc.?
Ideally, said tool would have knobs to control the amount of
traffic and whether a given type of traffic is present.
This is mostly for torture testing "IoT" type devices by exposing
them to lots of diverse, essentially nonsense traffic that they're
likely to see in a real environment.
--
Brandon Martin