A very capable alternative to the industry standard traffic generator and network testing tools, at a fraction of the cost.
Functional testing and Performance testing. All common protocols. Create packets from scratch or import, edit and replay PCAP files. Use the friendly GUI for manual testing and the powerful API for test automation and scripting. Emulate multiple devices with ARP and ping support.
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From individual network engineers to small companies to Fortune 500 companies
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Ostinato is used by network engineers and developers building, testing or deploying networks and network devices
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Network engineer and programmer Srivats P created Ostinato as an alternative to pricey commercial traffic generators. You can read the full origin story.
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Advanced features at a fraction of the cost of commercial traffic generators. Outstanding customer support.
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C++, Qt5, libpcap, AF_XDP
it just does the job! great support from the creator as well.
As a novice to networking protocol, I was able to understand the protocols much better with the help of Ostinato Traffic generator. With wide options to explore and support to use the same thing with python helped me and my team in understanding & testing of different protocols. Especially response from Srivats for the queries helped me step custom streams for my application.
I used Ostinato a couple years back at a different company and loved it then. Now, at a new company, purchased a new license for it and am still impressed. Super user friendly and intuitive, the creator reaches out after you buy and offers awesome support/tutorial videos.
Network engineers, this is the app to test storm control, packet rate limits, and any other feature you need to test. Also replay wireshark packet captures. So awesome.
Packet Sender might be a bit more popular than Ostinato. We know about 4 links to it since March 2021 and only 3 links to Ostinato. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
A port of https://ostinato.org/ would be nice! Source: about 1 year ago
Ostinato can generate and send ARP floods and other broadcast packets. Source: over 1 year ago
Donation-ware in disguise. A more Qt-er example: https://ostinato.org. Source: about 3 years ago
By googling around I found https://packetsender.com which is able to send-receive packets in various protocols - including UDP. It has desktop apps for Win, Mac and Linux (I used the Linux variant). In the desktop app, under the Tools menu, it has references to mobile apps for Android and iOS, but I had no luck locating them. Source: 11 months ago
I've slowly transitioned most of my company's projects over to this method for in house testing/calibration and it's made a world of difference. There is something to be said about being able to open putty or Packet Sender and get intimidate feedback on what is happening without having to bust out the debugger. Source: over 2 years ago
RADIUS uses UDP ports so you can't test it via telnet / test-netconnect (powershell), but there are 3rd party tools like Packet Sender: https://packetsender.com/. Source: over 2 years ago
Network Fuzzing is used to send network packets to test network security. You could try one of those. Here's another utility you might want to try. Source: almost 3 years ago
Wireshark - Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.
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PortMapper - Do you need to map a specific TCP or UDP port on your machine to another port on another machine?