Wednesday, May 14, 2014

IxNetwork Traffic: How to create ARP storm

Scenario:
Send ARP request from 100 different devices ( IP 100.0.0.2+100 ) to IP 100.0.0.1

Configuration:
1. Create a RAW stream  between port 1 and port 2

2. Configure the Ethernet settings of the traffic stream
2.a Set destination address as Broadcast address

2.b Set Source MAC as 00:00:01:00:00:01 incremental  , count 100.

3. Add the ARP header inside the Ethernet payload
3.aClick on Ethernet Payload and then on button Add protocol to frame

3.b Select Ethernen ARP

3.c Set Sender Hardware Address to matche the Source MAC adress






3.d Set the Sender Protocol Address to 100.0.0.2+100

3.e Set the Target Protocol Address to  100.0.0.1 


3.f  Make sure frame size is set to 64B


***The end result should look like this:


***For real  ARP controll traffic do not enable any flow tracking  on  the Traffic Item.
The flow tracking add some extra signature/timestamp bits inside the packets that are used for statistics.
If you  want to see statistics  of the  traffic item enable flow tracking, I suggest on MAC source as bellow. The frame size  might  automatically modified also.




8 comments:

  1. This article just came in handy for a quick test I needed to run. Thanks for the post!

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  2. Thanks for the post. Really helped me in testing..

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  3. I want to know how to use Ix automate.....

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  4. wow, it's actually helpful to me :) thank you so much!

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  5. you are awesome. Thanks a lot. can you pls post to send 100 dhcp messages.

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