IPTEST(1) General Commands Manual IPTEST(1)
NAME
iptest - automatically generate packets to test IP functionality
SYNOPSIS
iptest [ -1234567 ] [ -d <device> ] [ -g <gateway> ] [ -m <MTU> ] [ -p
<pointtest> ] [ -s <source> ] <destination>
DESCRIPTION
iptest ...
OPTIONS
-1 Run IP test group #1. This group of tests generates packets
with the IP header fields set to invalid values given other
packet characteristics. The point tests are: 1 (ip_hl <
ip_len), 2 (ip_hl > ip_len), 3 (ip_v < 4), 4 (ip_v > 4), 5
(ip_len < packetsize, long packets), 6 (ip_len > packet size,
short packets), 7 (Zero length fragments), 8 (packet > 64k after
reassembly), 9 (IP offset with MSB set), 10 (ttl variations).
-2 Run IP test group #2. This group of tests generates packets
with the IP options constructed with invalid values given other
packet characteristics. The point tests are: 1 (option length >
packet length), 2 (option length = 0).
-3 Run IP test group #3. This group of tests generates packets
with the ICMP header fields set to non-standard values. The
point tests are: 1 (ICMP types 0-31 & 255), 2 (type 3 & code 0 -
31), 3 (type 4 & code 0, 127, 128, 255), 4 (type 5 & code 0,
127, 128, 255), 5 (types 8-10,13-18 with codes 0, 127, 128 and
255), 6 (type 12 & code 0, 127, 128, 129, 255) and 7 (type 3 &
codes 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18 - shortened packets).
-4 Run IP test group #4. This group of tests generates packets
with the UDP header fields set to non-standard values. The
point tests are: 1 (UDP length > packet size), 2 (UDP length <
packetsize), 3 (sport = 0, 1, 32767, 32768, 65535), 4 (dport =
0, 1, 32767, 32768, 65535) and 5 (sizeof(struct ip) <= MTU <=
sizeof(struct udphdr) + sizeof(struct ip)).
-5 Run IP test group #5. This group of tests generates packets
with the TCP header fields set to non-standard values. The
point tests are: 1 (TCP flags variations, all combinations), 2
(seq = 0, 0x7fffffff, 0x8000000, 0xa0000000, 0xffffffff), 3
(ack = 0, 0x7fffffff, 0x8000000, 0xa0000000, 0xffffffff), 4 (SYN
packet with window of 0, 32768, 65535), 5 (set urgent pointer to
1, 0x7fff, 0x8000, 0xffff), 6 (data offset), 7 (sport = 0, 1,
32767, 32768, 65535) and 8 (dport = 0, 1, 32767, 32768, 65535).
-6 Run IP test group #6. This test generates a large number of
fragments in an attempt to exhaust the network buffers used for
holding packets for later reassembly. WARNING: this may crash
or cause serious performance degradation to the target host.
-7 Run IP test group #7. This test generates 1024 random IP pack-
ets with only the IP version, checksum, length and IP offset
field correct.
-d <interface>
Set the interface name to be the name supplied.
-g <gateway>
Specify the hostname of the gateway through which to route pack-
ets. This is required whenever the destination host isn't di-
rectly attached to the same network as the host from which
you're sending.
-m <MTU>
Specify the MTU to be used when sending out packets. This op-
tion allows you to set a fake MTU, allowing the simulation of
network interfaces with small MTU's without setting them so.
-p <test>
Run a...
SEE ALSO
ipresend(1), ipsend(1), bpf(4), ipsend(5)
DIAGNOSTICS
Only one of the numeric test options may be given when iptest is run.
Needs to be run as root.
BUGS
If you find any, please send email to me at
[email protected]
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