bittwist -- pcap based ethernet packet generator
bittwist [
-dvh ] [
-i interface ] [
-s
length ] [
-l loop ] [
-c count ] [
-m speed ] [
-r rate ] [
-p sleep ]
pcap-file(s)
This document describes the
bittwist program, the
pcap(3) based
Ethernet packet generator.
Bittwist is designed to work under Ethernet
II (IEEE 802.3) network with a MTU of up to 1500 bytes on 10Mbps (10Base-T
Ethernet) or 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) link speed. Packets are generated from
saved
tcpdump(1) capture file referred to as trace file in this
document. Some familiarity with
tcpdump(1) and its basic options are
assumed in this document. Since
bittwist uses functions provided by
pcap(3) library, e.g.
pcap_open_live() and
pcap_inject(),
to write packets onto the network, it may require that you have special
privileges, e.g. read access to
/dev/bpf* on BSD or root access on
Linux, to generate packets or to enumerate network devices with, for example,
the
-d flag.
Bittwist will, if not run with the
-s flag, inject each packet up
to its actual length (on-wire) instead of its captured length. If the captured
length is less than the actual length,
bittwist will pad the packet
with zeros up to its actual length prior to injection.
Bittwist will,
if not run with the
-m,
-r, or
-p flag, inject packets
from a trace file based on the captured intervals, in particular, the
timestamp difference between two adjacent packets, except for the first packet
in a trace file, which is always injected immediately.
Bittwist is
designed to not to interfere with the packet data; it merely read a packet and
inject it as is onto the network. If modification is desired prior to
injection of a packet, you can use the
bittwiste(1) program, which does
just that.
- -d
- Print a list of network interfaces available.
- -v
- Print timestamp for each packet.
- -vv
- Print timestamp and hex data for each packet.
- -i interface
- Send pcap-file(s) out onto the network through
interface.
- -s length
- Packet length to send. Set length to:
-
0 to send the actual packet length. This is the default.
-1 to send the captured length.
- or any other value from 14 to 1514.
- -l loop
- Send pcap-file(s) out onto the network for
loop times. Set loop to 0 to send pcap-file(s) until
stopped. To stop, type Control-C.
- -c count
- Send up to count packets. Default is to send all
packets from pcap-file(s).
- -m speed
- Set interval multiplier to speed. Set speed
to 0 or less to send the next packet immediately. Minimum positive value
for speed is 0.000001.
- -r rate
- Limit the sending to rate Mbps. Value for
rate must be between 1 to 1000. This option is meant to limit the
maximum packet throughput. If you want to send packets at line rate of
100Mbps, try -m 0 -r 100
- -p sleep
- Set interval to sleep (in seconds), ignoring the
actual interval. Value for sleep must be between 1 to 2146.
- -h
- Print version information and usage.
bittwiste(1),
pcap(3),
tcpdump(1)
File your bug report and send to:
- Addy Yeow Chin Heng <[email protected]>
Make sure you are using the latest stable version before submitting your bug
report.
If you run
bittwist with
-m flag set to 0 without limiting the
throughput with
-r flag,
pcap_inject() may return an error with
the following error string:
- send: No buffer space available
We recommend that you specify the
-r flag to limit the packet throughput,
e.g.
-m 0
-r 100 to inject packets at a maximum rate of 100Mbps.
Copyright (C) 2006 - 2012 Addy Yeow Chin Heng <
[email protected]>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin
Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
Original author and current maintainer:
- Addy Yeow Chin Heng
The current version is available from
http://bittwist.sourceforge.net