1 .\" netsniff-ng - the packet sniffing beast
2 .\" Copyright 2013 Herbert Haas, modified by Daniel Borkmann.
3 .\" Subject to the GPL, version 2.
4 .TH MAUSEZAHN 8 "03 March 2013" "Linux" "netsniff-ng toolkit"
6 mausezahn \- a fast versatile packet generator with Cisco-cli
10 \fBmausezahn\fR { [\fIoptions\fR] "<arg-string> | <hex-string>" }
14 mausezahn is a fast traffic generator which allows you to send nearly every
15 possible and impossible packet. In contrast to trafgen(8), mausezahn's packet
16 configuration is on a protocol-level instead of byte-level and mausezahn also
17 comes with a built-in Cisco-like command-line interface, making it suitable
18 as a network traffic generator box in your network lab.
20 Next to network labs, it can also be used as a didactical tool and for security
21 audits including penetration and DoS testing. As a traffic generator, mausezahn
22 is also able to test IP multicast or VoIP networks. Packet rates close to the
23 physical limit are reachable, depending on the hardware platform.
25 mausezahn supports two modes, ''direct mode'' and a multi-threaded ''interactive
28 The ''direct mode'' allows you to create a packet directly on the command line
29 and every packet parameter is specified in the argument list when calling
32 The ''interactive mode'' is an advanced multi-threaded configuration mode with
33 its own command line interface (CLI). This mode allows you to create an arbitrary
34 number of packet types and streams in parallel, each with different parameters.
36 The interactive mode utilizes a completely redesigned and more flexible protocol
37 framework called ''mops'' (mausezahn's own packet system). The look and feel of
38 the CLI is very close to the Cisco IOS^tm command line interface.
40 You can start the interactive mode by executing mausezahn with the ''\-x''
41 argument (an optional port number may follow, otherwise it is 25542). Then use
42 telnet(1) to connect to this mausezahn instance. If not otherwise specified,
43 the default login and password combination is mz:mz and the enable password is: mops.
44 This can be changed in /etc/netsniff-ng/mausezahn.conf.
46 The direct mode supports two specification schemes: The ''raw-layer-2'' scheme,
47 where every single byte to be sent can be specified, and ''higher-layer'' scheme,
48 where packet builder interfaces are used (using the ''\-t'' option).
50 To use the ''raw-layer-2'' scheme, simply specify the desired frame as a
51 hexadecimal sequence (the ''hex-string''), such as:
53 mausezahn eth0 "00:ab:cd:ef:00 00:00:00:00:00:01 08:00 ca:fe:ba:be"
55 In this example, whitespaces within the byte string are optional and separate
56 the Ethernet fields (destination and source address, type field, and a short
57 payload). The only additional options supported are ''\-a'', ''\-b'', ''\-c'',
58 and ''\-p''. The frame length must be greater than or equal to 15 bytes.
60 The ''higher-layer'' scheme is enabled using the ''\-t <packet-type>'' option.
61 This option activates a packet builder, and besides the ''packet-type'', an
62 optional ''arg-string'' can be specified. The ''arg-string'' contains packet-
63 specific parameters, such as TCP flags, port numbers, etc. (see example section).
67 mausezahn provides a built-in context-specific help. Append the keyword
68 ''help'' after the configuration options. The most important options
72 Start mausezahn in interactive mode with a Cisco-like CLI. Use telnet to log
73 into the local mausezahn instance. If no port has been specified, port 25542
77 Specify IPv6 mode (IPv4 is the default).
80 Specify the IP address mausezahn should bind to when in interactive mode, default: 0.0.0.0.
83 Verbose mode. Capital \-V is even more verbose.
86 Simulation mode, i.e. don't put anything on the wire. This is typically combined
87 with the verbose mode.
90 Quiet mode where only warnings and errors are displayed.
93 Send the packet count times (default: 1, infinite: 0).
96 Apply delay between transmissions. The delay value can be specified in usec
97 (default, no additional unit needed), or in msec (e.g. 100m or 100msec), or
98 in seconds (e.g. 100s or 100sec). Note: mops also supports nanosecond delay
99 resolution if you need it (see interactive mode).
102 Pad the raw frame to specified length using zero bytes. Note that for raw
103 layer 2 frames the specified length defines the whole frame length, while for
104 higher layer packets the number of additional padding bytes are specified.
106 .SS -a <src-mac|keyword>
107 Use specified source MAC address with hexadecimal notation such as 00:00:aa:bb:cc:dd.
108 By default the interface MAC address will be used. The keywords ''rand'' and
109 ''own'' refer to a random MAC address (only unicast addresses are created)
110 and the own address, respectively. You can also use the keywords mentioned
111 below although broadcast-type source addresses are officially invalid.
113 .SS -b <dst-mac|keyword>
114 Use specified destination MAC address. By default, a broadcast is sent in raw
115 layer 2 mode or to the destination hosts or gateway interface MAC address in normal
116 (IP) mode. You can use the same keywords as mentioned above, as well as
117 ''bc'' or ''bcast'', ''cisco'', and ''stp''. Please note that for the destination
118 MAC address the ''rand'' keyword is supported but creates a random address only
119 once, even when you send multiple packets.
121 .SS -A <src-ip|range|rand>
122 Use specified source IP address, default is own interface address. Optionally, the
123 keyword ''rand'' can again be used for a random source IP address or a range
124 can be specified, such as ''192.168.1.1-192.168.1.100'' or ''10.1.0.0/16''.
125 Also, a DNS name can be specified for which mausezahn tries to determine the
126 corresponding IP address automatically.
128 .SS -B <dst-ip|range>
129 Use specified destination IP address (default is broadcast i.e. 255.255.255.255).
130 As with the source address (see above) you can also specify a range or a DNS name.
132 .SS -t <packet-type [help] | help>
133 Create the specified packet type using the built-in packet builder. Currently,
134 supported packet types are: ''arp'', ''bpdu'', ''ip'', ''udp'', ''tcp'', ''rtp'',
135 and ''dns''. Currently, there is also limited support for ''icmp''. Type
136 ''\-t help'' to verify which packet builders your actual mausezahn version
137 supports. Also, for any particular packet type, for example ''tcp'' type
138 ''mausezahn \-t tcp help'' to receive a more in-depth context specific help.
141 Make this mausezahn instance the receiving station. Currently, only ''rtp'' is
142 an option here and provides precise jitter measurements. For this purpose, start
143 another mausezahn instance on the sending station and the local receiving station
144 will output jitter statistics. See ''mausezahn \-T rtp help'' for a detailed help.
146 .SS -Q <[CoS:]vlan> [, <[CoS:]vlan>, ...]
147 Specify 802.1Q VLAN tag and optional Class of Service. An arbitrary number of
148 VLAN tags can be specified (that is, you can simulate QinQ or even QinQinQinQ..).
149 Multiple tags must be separated via a comma or a period (e.g. "5:10,20,2:30").
150 VLAN tags are not supported for ARP and BPDU packets (in which case you could
151 specify the whole frame in hexadecimal using the raw layer 2 interface of mausezahn).
153 .SS -M <label[:cos[:ttl]][bos]> [, <label...>]
154 Specify a MPLS label or even a MPLS label stack. Optionally, for each label the
155 experimental bits (usually the Class of Service, CoS) and the Time To Live
156 (TTL) can be specified. If you are really crazy you can set and unset the
157 Bottom of Stack (BoS) bit for each label using the ''S'' (set) and ''s''
158 (unset) option. By default, the BoS is set automatically and correctly. Any other
159 setting will lead to invalid frames. Enter ''\-M help'' for detailed instructions
162 .SS -P <ascii-payload>
163 Specify a cleartext payload. Alternatively, each packet type supports a
164 hexadecimal specification of the payload (see for example ''\-t udp help'').
167 Read the ASCII payload from the specified file.
170 Read the hexadecimal payload from the specified file. Actually, this file must be also
171 an ASCII text file, but must contain hexadecimal digits, e.g. "aa:bb:cc:0f:e6...".
172 You can use also spaces as separation characters.
176 For more comprehensive examples, have a look at the two following HOWTO sections.
178 .SS mausezahn eth0 \-c 0 \-d 2s \-t bpdu vlan=5
179 Send BPDU frames for VLAN 5 as used with Cisco's PVST+ type of STP. By default
180 mausezahn assumes that you want to become the root bridge.
182 .SS mausezahn eth0 \-c 128000 \-a rand \-p 64
183 Perform a CAM table overflow attack.
185 .SS mausezahn eth0 \-c 0 \-Q 5,100 \-t tcp "flags=syn,dp=1-1023" \-p 20 \-A rand \-B 10.100.100.0/24
186 Perform a SYN flood attack to another VLAN using VLAN hopping. This only works
187 if you are connected to the same VLAN which is configured as native VLAN on the
188 trunk. We assume that the victim VLAN is VLAN 100 and the native VLAN is VLAN 5.
189 Lets attack every host in VLAN 100 which use an IP prefix of 10.100.100.0/24, also
190 try out all ports between 1 and 1023 and use a random source IP address.
192 .SS mausezahn eth0 \-c 0 \-d 10msec \-B 230.1.1.1 \-t udp "dp=32000,dscp=46" \-P "Multicast test packet"
193 Send IP multicast packets to the multicast group 230.1.1.1 using a UDP header
194 with destination port 32000 and set the IP DSCP field to EF (46). Send one
197 .SS mausezahn eth0 \-Q 6:420 \-M 100,200,300:5 \-A 172.30.0.0/16 \-B target.anynetwork.foo \-t udp "sp=666,dp=1-65535" \-p 1000 \-c 10
198 Send UDP packets to the destination host target.anynetwork.foo using all
199 possible destination ports and send every packet with all possible source
200 addresses of the range 172.30.0.0/16; additionally use a source port of 666
201 and three MPLS labels, 100, 200, and 300, the outer (300) with QoS field 5.
202 Send the frame with a VLAN tag 420 and CoS 6; eventually pad with 1000 bytes
203 and repeat the whole thing 10 times.
205 .SS mausezahn \-t syslog sev=3 \-P "Main reactor reached critical temperature." \-A 192.168.33.42 \-B 10.1.1.9 \-c 6 \-d 10s
206 Send six forged syslog messages with severity 3 to a Syslog server 10.1.1.9; use
207 a forged source IP address 192.168.33.42 and let mausezahn decide which local
208 interface to use. Use an inter-packet delay of 10 seconds.
210 .SS mausezahn \-t tcp "flags=syn|urg|rst, sp=145, dp=145, win=0, s=0-4294967295, ds=1500, urg=666" \-a bcast \-b bcast \-A bcast \-B 10.1.1.6 \-p 5
211 Send an invalid TCP packet with only a 5 byte payload as layer-2 broadcast and
212 also use the broadcast MAC address as source address. The target should be
213 10.1.1.6 but use a broadcast source address. The source and destination port
214 shall be 145 and the window size 0. Set the TCP flags SYN, URG, and RST
215 simultaneously and sweep through the whole TCP sequence number space with an
216 increment of 1500. Finally set the urgent pointer to 666, i.e. pointing to
219 .SH CONFIGURATION FILE
221 When mausezahn is run in interactive mode it automatically looks for and reads
222 a configuration file located at /etc/netsniff-ng/mausezahn.conf for custom options
223 if the file is available, otherwise it uses defaults set at compile time.
224 .SS Config file: /etc/netsniff-ng/mausezahn.conf
226 The configuration file contains lines of the form:
230 Options supported in the configuration file are:
233 user Username for authentication (default: mz)
234 password Password for authentication (default: mz)
235 enable Password to enter privilege mode (default: mops)
236 port The listening port for the CLI (default: 25542)
237 listen-addr IP address to bind CLI to (default: 0.0.0.0)
238 management-only Set management interface (no data traffic is allowed to pass through)
239 cli-device Interface to bind CLI to (default: all) *not fully implemented*
240 automops Path to automops file (contains XML data describing protocols) *in development*
244 $ cat /etc/netsniff-ng/mausezahn.conf
247 enable = privilege-mode-passwd
249 listen-addr = 127.0.0.1
251 .SH INTERACTIVE MODE HOWTO
255 Using the interactive mode requires starting mausezahn as a server:
259 Now you can telnet(1) to that server using the default port number 25542, but also
260 an arbitrary port number can be specified:
263 mausezahn accepts incoming telnet connections on port 99.
264 mz: Problems opening config file. Will use defaults
267 Either from another terminal or from another host try to telnet to the
270 caprica$ telnet galactica 99
271 Trying 192.168.0.4...
272 Connected to galactica.
273 Escape character is '^]'.
283 It is recommended to configure your own login credentials in
284 /etc/netsniff-ng/mausezahn.conf, (see configuration file section)
287 Since you reached the mausezahn prompt, lets try some common commands. You can
288 use the '?' character at any time for context-specific help. Note that Cisco-like
289 short form of commands are accepted in interactive mode. For example, one
290 can use "sh pac" instead of "show packet"; another common example is to use
291 "config t" in place of "configure terminal". For readability, this manual will
292 continue with the full commands.
294 First try out the show command:
298 mausezahn maintains its own ARP table and observes anomalies. There is an entry
299 for every physical interface (however this host has only one):
302 Intf Index IP address MAC address last Ch UCast BCast Info
303 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
304 eth0 [1] D 192.168.0.1 00:09:5b:9a:15:84 23:44:41 1 1 0 0000
306 The column Ch tells us that the announced MAC address has only changed one time
307 (= when it was learned). The columns Ucast and BCast tell us how often this
308 entry was announced via unicast or broadcast respectively.
310 Let's check our interfaces:
313 Available network interfaces:
314 real real used (fake) used (fake)
315 device IPv4 address MAC address IPv4 address MAC address
316 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
317 > eth0 192.168.0.4 00:30:05:76:2e:8d 192.168.0.4 00:30:05:76:2e:8d
318 lo 127.0.0.1 00:00:00:00:00:00 127.0.0.1 00:00:00:00:00:00
320 Default interface is eth0.
322 .SS Defining packets:
324 Let's check the current packet list:
327 Packet layer flags: E=Ethernet, S=SNAP, Q=802.1Q, M=MPLS, I/i=IP/delivery_off, U=UDP, T=TCP
328 PktID PktName Layers Proto Size State Device Delay Count/CntX
329 1 sysARP_servic... E----- ARP 60 config lo 100 msec 1/0 (100%)
330 1 packets defined, 0 active.
332 We notice that there is already one system-defined packet process; it has been
333 created and used only once (during startup) by mausezahn's ARP service.
334 Currently, its state is config which means that the process is sleeping.
336 .SS General packet options:
338 Now let's create our own packet process and switch into the global
341 mz# configure terminal
343 Allocated new packet PKT0002 at slot 2
346 name Assign a unique name
347 description Assign a packet description text
348 bind Select the network interface
349 count Configure the packet count value
350 delay Configure the inter-packet delay
351 interval Configure a greater interval
352 type Specify packet type
353 mac Configure packet's MAC addresses
355 payload Configure a payload
356 port Configure packet's port numbers
357 end End packet configuration mode
358 ethernet Configure frame's Ethernet, 802.2, 802.3, or SNAP settings
359 ip Configure packet's IP settings
360 udp Configure packet's UDP header parameters
361 tcp Configure packet's TCP header parameters
363 Here are a lot of options but normally you only need a few of them. When you
364 configure lots of different packets you might assign a reasonable name and
365 description for them:
367 mz(config-pkt-2)# name Test
368 mz(config-pkt-2)# description This is just a test
370 You can, for example, change the default settings for the source and destination MAC or IP
371 addresses using the mac and ip commands:
373 mz(config-pkt-2)# ip address destination 10.1.1.0 /24
374 mz(config-pkt-2)# ip address source random
376 In the example above, we configured a range of addresses (all hosts in the
377 network 10.1.1.0 should be addressed). Additionally we spoof our source IP
378 address. Of course, we can also add one or more VLAN and, or, MPLS tag(s):
380 mz(config-pkt-2)# tag ?
381 dot1q Configure 802.1Q (and 802.1P) parameters
382 mpls Configure MPLS label stack
383 mz(config-pkt-2)# tag dot ?
384 Configure 802.1Q tags:
385 VLAN[:CoS] [VLAN[:CoS]] ... The leftmost tag is the outer tag in the frame
386 remove <tag-nr> | all Remove one or more tags (<tag-nr> starts with 1),
387 by default the first (=leftmost,outer) tag is removed,
388 keyword 'all' can be used instead of tag numbers.
389 cfi | nocfi [<tag-nr>] Set or unset the CFI-bit in any tag (by default
390 assuming the first tag).
391 mz(config-pkt-2)# tag dot 1:7 200:5
393 .SS Configure count and delay:
395 mz(config-pkt-2)# count 1000
396 mz(config-pkt-2)# delay ?
397 delay <value> [hour | min | sec | msec | usec | nsec]
399 Specify the inter-packet delay in hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds,
400 microseconds or nanoseconds. The default unit is milliseconds (i.e. when no
403 mz(config-pkt-2)# delay 1 msec
404 Inter-packet delay set to 0 sec and 1000000 nsec
407 .SS Configuring protocol types:
409 mausezahn's interactive mode supports a growing list of protocols and only
410 relies on the MOPS architecture (and not on libnet as is the case with
411 the legacy direct mode):
413 mz(config-pkt-2)# type
414 Specify a packet type from the following list:
422 mz(config-pkt-2)# type tcp
423 mz(config-pkt-2-tcp)#
425 seqnr Configure the TCP sequence number
426 acknr Configure the TCP acknowledgement number
427 hlen Configure the TCP header length
428 reserved Configure the TCP reserved field
429 flags Configure a combination of TCP flags at once
430 cwr Set or unset the TCP CWR flag
431 ece Set or unset the TCP ECE flag
432 urg Set or unset the TCP URG flag
433 ack set or unset the TCP ACK flag
434 psh set or unset the TCP PSH flag
435 rst set or unset the TCP RST flag
436 syn set or unset the TCP SYN flag
437 fin set or unset the TCP FIN flag
438 window Configure the TCP window size
439 checksum Configure the TCP checksum
440 urgent-pointer Configure the TCP urgent pointer
441 options Configure TCP options
442 end End TCP configuration mode
443 mz(config-pkt-2-tcp)# flags syn fin rst
444 Current setting is: --------------------RST-SYN-FIN
445 mz(config-pkt-2-tcp)# end
446 mz(config-pkt-2)# payload ascii This is a dummy payload for my first packet
447 mz(config-pkt-2)# end
449 Now configure another packet, for example let's assume we want an LLDP process:
452 Allocated new packet PKT0003 at slot 3
453 mz(config-pkt-3)# type lldp
454 mz(config-pkt-3-lldp)# exit
457 In the above example we only use the default LLDP settings and don't configure
458 further LLDP options or TLVs. Back in the top level of the CLI let's verify
462 Packet layer flags: E=Ethernet, S=SNAP, Q=802.1Q, M=MPLS, I/i=IP/delivery_off, U=UDP, T=TCP
463 PktID PktName Layers Proto Size State Device Delay Count/CntX
464 1 sysARP_servic... E----- ARP 60 config lo 100 msec 1/0 (100%)
465 2 Test E-Q-IT 125 config eth0 1000 usec 1000/1000 (0%)
466 3 PKT0003 E----- LLDP 36 config eth0 30 sec 0/0 (0%)
467 3 packets defined, 0 active.
469 The column Layers indicates which major protocols have been combined. For
470 example the packet with packet-id 2 ("Test") utilizes Ethernet (E),
471 IP (I), and TCP (T). Additionally an 802.1Q tag (Q) has been inserted. Now
472 start one of these packet processes:
477 Packet layer flags: E=Ethernet, S=SNAP, Q=802.1Q, M=MPLS, I/i=IP/delivery_off, U=UDP, T=TCP
478 PktID PktName Layers Proto Size State Device Delay Count/CntX
479 1 sysARP_servic... E----- ARP 60 config lo 100 msec 1/0 (100%)
480 2 Test E-Q-IT 125 config eth0 1000 usec 1000/1000 (0%)
481 3 PKT0003 E----- LLDP 36 config eth0 30 sec 0/1 (0%)
482 3 packets defined, 1 active.
484 Let's have a more detailed look at a specific packet process:
488 Description: This is just a test
489 State: config, Count=1000, delay=1000 usec (0 s 1000000 nsec), interval= (undefined)
491 Ethernet: 00-30-05-76-2e-8d => ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff [0800 after 802.1Q tag]
492 Auto-delivery is ON (that is, the actual MAC is adapted upon transmission)
493 802.1Q: 0 tag(s); (VLAN:CoS)
494 IP: SA=192.168.0.4 (not random) (no range)
495 DA=255.255.255.255 (no range)
496 ToS=0x00 proto=17 TTL=255 ID=0 offset=0 flags: -|-|-
497 len=49664(correct) checksum=0x2e8d(correct)
498 TCP: 83 bytes segment size (including TCP header)
499 SP=0 (norange) (not random), DP=0 (norange) (not random)
500 SQNR=3405691582 (start 0, stop 4294967295, delta 0) -- ACKNR=0 (invalid)
501 Flags: ------------------------SYN----, reserved field is 00, urgent pointer= 0
502 Announced window size= 100
503 Offset= 0 (times 32 bit; value is valid), checksum= ffff (valid)
504 (No TCP options attached) - 0 bytes defined
505 Payload size: 43 bytes
506 Frame size: 125 bytes
507 1 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:30 05:76:2e:8d:81:00:e0:01 81:00:a0:c8:08:00:45:00 00:67:00:00:00:00:ff:06
508 33 fa:e4:c0:a8:00:04:ff:ff ff:ff:00:00:00:00:ca:fe ba:be:00:00:00:00:a0:07 00:64:f7:ab:00:00:02:04
509 65 05:ac:04:02:08:0a:19:35 90:c3:00:00:00:00:01:03 03:05:54:68:69:73:20:69 73:20:61:20:64:75:6d:6d
510 97 79:20:70:61:79:6c:6f:61 64:20:66:6f:72:20:6d:79 20:66:69:72:73:74:20:70 61:63:6b:65:74
513 If you want to stop one or more packet processes, use the stop command. The
514 "emergency stop" is when you use stop all:
519 Stopped 1 transmission processe(s)
521 The launch command provides a shortcut for commonly used packet processes. For
522 example to behave like a STP-capable bridge we want to start an BPDU process
523 with typical parameters:
526 Allocated new packet sysBPDU at slot 5
528 Packet layer flags: E=Ethernet, S=SNAP, Q=802.1Q, M=MPLS, I/i=IP/delivery_off, U=UDP, T=TCP
529 PktID PktName Layers Proto Size State Device Delay Count/CntX
530 1 sysARP_servic... E----- ARP 60 config lo 100 msec 1/0 (100%)
531 2 Test E-Q-IT 125 config eth0 1000 usec 1000/1000 (0%)
532 3 PKT0003 E----- LLDP 36 config eth0 30 sec 0/12 (0%)
533 4 PKT0004 E---I- IGMP 46 config eth0 100 msec 0/0 (0%)
534 5 sysBPDU ES---- BPDU 29 active eth0 2 sec 0/1 (0%)
535 5 packets defined, 1 active.
537 Now a Configuration BPDU is sent every 2 seconds, claiming to be the root
538 bridge (and usually confusing the LAN. Note that only packet 5 (i.e. the
539 last row) is active and therefore sending packets while all other packets
540 are in state config (i.e. they have been configured but they are not doing
541 anything at the moment).
543 .SS Configuring a greater interval:
545 Sometimes you may want to send a burst of packets at a greater interval:
548 Modify packet parameters for packet Test [2]
549 mz(config-pkt-2)# interval
550 Configure a greater packet interval in days, hours, minutes, or seconds
551 Arguments: <value> <days | hours | minutes | seconds>
552 Use a zero value to disable an interval.
553 mz(config-pkt-2)# interval 1 hour
554 mz(config-pkt-2)# count 10
555 mz(config-pkt-2)# delay 15 usec
556 Inter-packet delay set to 0 sec and 15000 nsec
558 Now this packet is sent ten times with an inter-packet delay of 15 microseconds
559 and this is repeated every hour. When you look at the packet list, an interval
560 is indicated with the additional flag 'i' when inactive or 'I' when active:
563 Packet layer flags: E=Ethernet, S=SNAP, Q=802.1Q, M=MPLS, I/i=IP/delivery_off, U=UDP, T=TCP
564 PktID PktName Layers Proto Size State Device Delay Count/CntX
565 1 sysARP_servic... E----- ARP 60 config lo 100 msec 1/0 (100%)
566 2 Test E-Q-IT 125 config-i eth0 15 usec 10/10 (0%)
567 3 PKT0003 E----- LLDP 36 config eth0 30 sec 0/12 (0%)
568 4 PKT0004 E---I- IGMP 46 config eth0 100 msec 0/0 (0%)
569 5 sysBPDU ES---- BPDU 29 active eth0 2 sec 0/251 (0%)
570 5 packets defined, 1 active.
574 Packet layer flags: E=Ethernet, S=SNAP, Q=802.1Q, M=MPLS, I/i=IP/delivery_off, U=UDP, T=TCP
575 PktID PktName Layers Proto Size State Device Delay Count/CntX
576 1 sysARP_servic... E----- ARP 60 config lo 100 msec 1/0 (100%)
577 2 Test E-Q-IT 125 config+I eth0 15 usec 10/0 (100%)
578 3 PKT0003 E----- LLDP 36 config eth0 30 sec 0/12 (0%)
579 4 PKT0004 E---I- IGMP 46 config eth0 100 msec 0/0 (0%)
580 5 sysBPDU ES---- BPDU 29 active eth0 2 sec 0/256 (0%)
581 5 packets defined, 1 active.
583 Note that the flag 'I' indicates that an interval has been specified for
584 packet 2. The process is not active at the moment (only packet 5 is active
585 here) but it will become active at a regular interval. You can verify the
586 actual interval when viewing the packet details via the 'show packet 2' command.
588 .SS Load prepared configurations:
590 You can prepare packet configurations using the same commands as you would
591 type them in on the CLI and then load them to the CLI. For example, assume we
592 have prepared a file 'test.mops' containing:
597 desc This is only a demonstration how to load a file to mops
600 Then we can add this packet configuration to our packet list using the load
604 Read commands from test.mops...
605 Allocated new packet PKT0002 at slot 2
607 Packet layer flags: E=Ethernet, S=SNAP, Q=802.1Q, M=MPLS, I/i=IP/delivery_off, U=UDP, T=TCP
608 PktID PktName Layers Proto Size State Device Delay Count/CntX
609 1 sysARP_servic... E----- ARP 60 config lo 100 msec 1/0 (100%)
610 2 IGMP_TEST E---I- IGMP 46 config eth0 100 msec 0/0 (0%)
611 2 packets defined, 0 active.
613 The file src/examples/mausezahn/example_lldp.conf contains another example
614 list of commands to create a bogus LLDP packet. You can load this
615 configuration from the mausezahn command line as follows:
617 mz# load /home/hh/tmp/example_lldp.conf
619 In case you copied the file in that path. Now when you enter 'show packet' you
620 will see a new packet entry in the packet list. Use the 'start slot <nr>'
621 command to activate this packet.
623 You can store your own packet creations in such a file and easily load them when
624 you need them. Every command within such configuration files is executed on the
625 command line interface as if you had typed it in -- so be careful about the
626 order and don't forget to use 'configure terminal' as first command.
628 You can even load other files from within a central config file.
630 .SH DIRECT MODE HOWTO
632 .SS How to specify hexadecimal digits:
634 Many arguments allow direct byte input. Bytes are represented as two
635 hexadecimal digits. Multiple bytes must be separated either by spaces, colons,
636 or dashes - whichever you prefer. The following byte strings are equivalent:
638 "aa:bb cc-dd-ee ff 01 02 03-04 05"
639 "aa bb cc dd ee ff:01:02:03:04 05"
641 To begin with, you may want to send an arbitrary fancy (possibly invalid)
642 frame right through your network card:
644 mausezahn ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:08:00:ca:fe:ba:be
646 or equivalent but more readable:
648 mausezahn ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff-ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff-08:00-ca:fe:ba:be
650 .SS Basic operations:
652 All major command line options are listed when you execute mausezahn without
653 arguments. For practical usage, keep the following special (not so widely
654 known) options in mind:
656 \-r Multiplies the specified delay with a random value.
657 \-p <length> Pad the raw frame to specified length (using random bytes).
658 \-P <ASCII Payload> Use the specified ASCII payload.
659 \-f <filename> Read the ASCII payload from a file.
660 \-F <filename> Read the hexadecimal payload from a file.
661 \-S Simulation mode: DOES NOT put anything on the wire.
662 This is typically combined with one of the verbose
665 Many options require a keyword or a number but the \-t option is an exception
666 since it requires both a packet type (such as ip, udp, dns, etc) and an
667 argument string which is specific for that packet type. Here are some simple
671 mausezahn \-t tcp help
672 mausezahn eth3 \-t udp sp=69,dp=69,p=ca:fe:ba:be
674 Note: Don't forget that on the CLI the Linux shell (usually the Bash)
675 interprets spaces as a delimiting character. That is, if you are specifying
676 an argument that consists of multiple words with spaces in between, you MUST
677 group these within quotes. For example, instead of
679 mausezahn eth0 \-t udp sp=1,dp=80,p=00:11:22:33
681 you could either omit the spaces
683 mausezahn eth0 \-t udp sp=1,dp=80,p=00:11:22:33
685 or, for greater safety, use quotes:
687 mausezahn eth0 \-t udp "sp=1,dp=80,p=00:11:22:33"
689 In order to monitor what's going on, you can enable the verbose mode using
690 the \-v option. The opposite is the quiet mode (\-q) which will keep mausezahn
691 absolutely quiet (except for error messages and warnings.)
693 Don't confuse the payload argument p=... with the padding option \-p. The latter
694 is used outside the quotes!
696 .SS The automatic packet builder:
698 An important argument is \-t which invokes a packet builder. Currently there
699 are packet builders for ARP, BPDU, CDP, IP, partly ICMP, UDP, TCP, RTP, DNS,
700 and SYSLOG. (Additionally you can insert a VLAN tag or a MPLS label stack but
701 this works independently of the packet builder.)
703 You get context specific help for every packet builder using the help keyword,
706 mausezahn \-t bpdu help
707 mausezahn \-t tcp help
709 For every packet you may specify an optional payload. This can be done either
710 via hexadecimal notation using the payload (or short p) argument or directly as ASCII
711 text using the \-P option:
713 mausezahn eth0 \-t ip \-P "Hello World" # ASCII payload
714 mausezahn eth0 \-t ip p=68:65:6c:6c:6f:20:77:6f:72:6c:64 # hex payload
715 mausezahn eth0 \-t ip "proto=89, \\
716 p=68:65:6c:6c:6f:20:77:6f:72:6c:64, \\ # same with other
717 ttl=1" # IP arguments
719 Note: The raw link access mode only accepts hexadecimal payloads (because you specify
720 everything in hexadecimal here.)
722 .SS Packet count and delay:
724 By default only one packet is sent. If you want to send more packets then
725 use the count option \-c <count>. When count is zero then mausezahn will send
726 forever. By default, mausezahn sends at maximum speed (and this is really
727 fast ;-)). If you don't want to overwhelm your network devices or have other
728 reasons to send at a slower rate then you might want to specify a delay using
729 the \-d <delay> option.
731 If you only specify a numeric value it is interpreted in microsecond units.
732 Alternatively, for easier use, you might specify units such as seconds, sec,
733 milliseconds, or msec. (You can also abbreviate this with s or m.)
734 Note: Don't use spaces between the value and the unit! Here are typical examples:
736 Send an infinite number of frames as fast as possible:
738 mausezahn \-c 0 "aa bb cc dd ...."
740 Send 100,000 frames with a 50 msec interval:
742 mausezahn \-c 100000 \-d 50msec "aa bb cc dd ...."
744 Send an unlimited number of BPDU frames in a 2 second interval:
746 mausezahn \-c 0 \-d 2s \-t bpdu conf
748 Note: mausezahn does not support fractional numbers. If you want to specify for
749 example 2.5 seconds then express this in milliseconds (2500 msec).
751 .SS Source and destination addresses:
753 As a mnemonic trick keep in mind that all packets run from "A" to "B". You can
754 always specify source and destination MAC addresses using the \-a and \-b
755 options, respectively. These options also allow keywords such as rand, own,
756 bpdu, cisco, and others.
758 Similarly, you can specify source and destination IP addresses using the \-A
759 and \-B options, respectively. These options also support FQDNs (i.e. domain
760 names) and ranges such as 192.168.0.0/24 or 10.0.0.11-10.0.3.22. Additionally,
761 the source address option supports the rand keyword (ideal for "attacks").
763 Note: When you use the packet builder for IP-based packets (e.g. UDP or TCP)
764 then mausezahn automatically cares about correct MAC and IP addresses (i.e.
765 it performs ARP, DHCP, and DNS for you). But when you specify at least a single
766 link-layer address (or any other L2 option such as a VLAN tag or MPLS header)
767 then ARP is disabled and you must care for the Ethernet destination address for
772 .SS `-- Direct link access:
774 mausezahn allows you to send ANY chain of bytes directly through your Ethernet
777 mausezahn eth0 "ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 00:00 ca:fe:ba:be"
779 This way you can craft every packet you want but you must do it by hand. Note:
780 On Wi-Fi interfaces the header is much more complicated and automatically
781 created by the Wi-Fi driver. As an example to introduce some interesting options,
782 lets continuously send frames at max speed with random source MAC address and
783 broadcast destination address, additionally pad the frame to 1000 bytes:
785 mausezahn eth0 \-c 0 \-a rand \-b bcast \-p 1000 "08 00 aa bb cc dd"
787 The direct link access supports automatic padding using the \-p <total frame
788 length> option. This allows you to pad a raw L2 frame to the desired length.
789 You must specify the total length, and the total frame length must have at
790 least 15 bytes for technical reasons. Zero bytes are used for padding.
794 mausezahn provides a simple interface to the ARP packet. You can specify the
795 ARP method (request|reply) and up to four arguments: sendermac, targetmac,
796 senderip, targetip, or short smac, tmac, sip, tip. By default, an ARP reply is
797 sent with your own interface addresses as source MAC and IP address, and a
798 broadcast destination MAC and IP address. Send a gratuitous ARP request (as used for
799 duplicate IP address detection):
801 mausezahn eth0 \-t arp
805 mausezahn eth0 \-t arp "reply, senderip=192.168.0.1, targetmac=00:00:0c:01:02:03, \\
806 targetip=172.16.1.50"
808 where by default your interface MAC address will be used as sendermac,
809 senderip denotes the spoofed IP address, targetmac and targetip identifies the
810 receiver. By default, the Ethernet source address is your interface MAC and the
811 destination address is the broadcast address. You can change this
812 using the flags \-a and \-b.
816 mausezahn provides a simple interface to the 802.1D BPDU frame format (used to
817 create the Spanning Tree in bridged networks). By default, standard IEEE 802.1D
818 BPDUs are sent and it is assumed that your computer wants to become the
819 root bridge (rid=bid). Optionally the 802.3 destination address can be a
820 specified MAC address, broadcast, own MAC, or Cisco's PVST+ MAC address. The
821 destination MAC can be specified using the \-b command which, besides MAC
822 addresses, accepts keywords such as bcast, own, pvst, or stp (default). PVST+
823 is supported as well. Simply specify the VLAN for which you want to send a BPDU:
825 mausezahn eth0 \-t bpdu "vlan=123, rid=2000"
827 See mausezahn \-t bpdu help for more details.
831 mausezahn can send Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) messages since this protocol
832 has security relevance. Of course lots of dirty tricks are possible; for
833 example arbitrary TLVs can be created (using the hex-payload argument for
834 example p=00:0e:00:07:01:01:90) and if you want to stress the CDP database of
835 some device, mausezahn can send each CDP message with another system-id using
838 mausezahn \-t cdp change \-c 0
840 Some routers and switches may run into deep problems ;-) See
841 mausezahn \-t cdp help for more details.
843 .SS `-- 802.1Q VLAN Tags:
845 mausezahn allows simple VLAN tagging for IP (and other higher layer) packets.
846 Simply use the option \-Q <[CoS:]VLAN>, such as \-Q 10 or \-Q 3:921. By
847 default CoS=0. For example send a TCP packet in VLAN 500 using CoS=7:
849 mausezahn eth0 \-t tcp \-Q 7:500 "dp=80, flags=rst, p=aa:aa:aa"
851 You can create as many VLAN tags as you want! This is interesting to create
852 QinQ encapsulations or VLAN hopping: Send a UDP packet with VLAN tags 100
853 (outer) and 651 (inner):
855 mausezahn eth0 \-t udp "dp=8888, sp=13442" \-P "Mausezahn is great" \-Q 100,651
857 Don't know if this is useful anywhere but at least it is possible:
859 mausezahn eth0 \-t udp "dp=8888, sp=13442" \-P "Mausezahn is great" \\
860 \-Q 6:5,7:732,5:331,5,6
864 mausezahn eth0 \-t udp "dp=8888, sp=13442" \-P "Mausezahn is great" \-Q 100,651 \-M 314
866 When in raw Layer 2 mode you must create the VLAN tag completely by yourself.
867 For example if you want to send a frame in VLAN 5 using CoS 0 simply specify
868 81:00 as type field and for the next two bytes the CoS (PCP), DEI (CFI), and
869 VLAN ID values (all together known as TCI):
871 mausezahn eth0 \-b bc \-a rand "81:00 00:05 08:00 aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa"
875 mausezahn allows you to insert one or more MPLS headers. Simply use the option
876 \-M <label:CoS:TTL:BoS> where only the label is mandatory. If you specify a
877 second number it is interpreted as the experimental bits (the CoS usually). If
878 you specify a third number it is interpreted as TTL. By default the TTL is
879 set to 255. The Bottom of Stack flag is set automatically, otherwise the frame
880 would be invalid, but if you want you can also set or unset it using the
881 S (set) and s (unset) argument. Note that the BoS must be the last argument in
882 each MPLS header definition. Here are some examples:
886 mausezahn eth0 \-M 214 \-t tcp "dp=80" \-P "HTTP..." \-B myhost.com
888 Use three labels (the 214 is now the outer):
890 mausezahn eth0 \-M 9999,51,214 \-t tcp "dp=80" \-P "HTTP..." \-B myhost.com
892 Use two labels, one with CoS=5 and TTL=1, the other with CoS=7:
894 mausezahn eth0 \-M 100:5:1,500:7 \-t tcp "dp=80" \-P "HTTP..." \-B myhost.com
896 Unset the BoS flag (which will result in an invalid frame):
898 mausezahn eth0 \-M 214:s \-t tcp "dp=80" \-P "HTTP..." \-B myhost.com
902 IP, UDP, and TCP packets can be padded using the \-p option. Currently 0x42 is
903 used as padding byte ('the answer'). You cannot pad DNS packets (would be
908 mausezahn allows you to send any malformed or correct IP packet. Every field
909 in the IP header can be manipulated. The IP addresses can be specified via
910 the \-A and \-B options, denoting the source and destination address,
911 respectively. You can also specify an address range or a host name (FQDN).
912 Additionally, the source address can also be random. By default the source
913 address is your interface IP address and the destination address is a
914 broadcast address. Here are some examples:
918 mausezahn eth0 \-t ip \-A rand \-B 192.168.1.0/24 \-P "hello world"
922 mausezahn eth0 \-t ip \-A 10.1.0.1-10.1.255.254 \-B 255.255.255.255 p=ca:fe:ba:be
924 Will use correct source IP address:
926 mausezahn eth0 \-t ip \-B www.xyz.com
928 The Type of Service (ToS) byte can either be specified directly by two
929 hexadecimal digits, which means you can also easily set the Explicit
930 Congestion Notification (ECN) bits (LSB 1 and 2), or you may only want to
931 specify a common DSCP value (bits 3-8) using a decimal number (0..63):
933 Packet sent with DSCP = Expedited Forwarding (EF):
935 mausezahn eth0 \-t ip dscp=46,ttl=1,proto=1,p=08:00:5a:a2:de:ad:be:af
937 If you leave the checksum as zero (or unspecified) the correct checksum will
938 be automatically computed. Note that you can only use a wrong checksum when
939 you also specify at least one L2 field manually.
943 mausezahn supports easy UDP datagram generation. Simply specify the
944 destination address (\-B option) and optionally an arbitrary source address
945 (\-A option) and as arguments you may specify the port numbers using the
946 dp (destination port) and sp (source port) arguments and a payload. You can
947 also easily specify a whole port range which will result in sending multiple
948 packets. Here are some examples:
950 Send test packets to the RTP port range:
952 mausezahn eth0 \-B 192.168.1.1 \-t udp "dp=16384-32767, \\
953 p=A1:00:CC:00:00:AB:CD:EE:EE:DD:DD:00"
955 Send a DNS request as local broadcast (often a local router replies):
957 mausezahn eth0 \-t udp dp=53,p=c5-2f-01-00-00-01-00-00-00-00-00-00-03-77-77-\\
958 77-03-78-79-7a-03-63-6f-6d-00-00-01-00-01"
960 Additionally you may specify the length and checksum using the len and sum
961 arguments (will be set correctly by default). Note: several protocols have same
962 arguments such as len (length) and sum (checksum). If you specified a UDP type
963 packet (via \-t udp) and want to modify the IP length, then use the alternate
964 keyword iplen and ipsum. Also note that you must specify at least one L2 field
965 which tells mausezahn to build everything without the help of your kernel (the
966 kernel would not allow modifying the IP checksum and the IP length).
970 mausezahn currently only supports the following ICMP methods: PING (echo
971 request), Redirect (various types), Unreachable (various types). Additional
972 ICMP types will be supported in future. Currently you would need to tailor them
973 by yourself, e.g. using the IP packet builder (setting proto=1). Use the
974 mausezahn \-t icmp help for help on currently implemented options.
978 mausezahn allows you to easily tailor any TCP packet. Similarly as with UDP you
979 can specify source and destination port (ranges) using the sp and dp arguments.
980 Then you can directly specify the desired flags using an "|" as delimiter if
981 you want to specify multiple flags. For example, a SYN-Flood attack against
982 host 1.1.1.1 using a random source IP address and periodically using all 1023
983 well-known ports could be created via:
985 mausezahn eth0 \-A rand \-B 1.1.1.1 \-c 0 \-t tcp "dp=1-1023, flags=syn" \\
986 \-P "Good morning! This is a SYN Flood Attack. \\
987 We apologize for any inconvenience."
989 Be careful with such SYN floods and only use them for firewall testing. Check
990 your legal position! Remember that a host with an open TCP session only accepts
991 packets with correct socket information (addresses and ports) and a valid TCP
992 sequence number (SQNR). If you want to try a DoS attack by sending a RST-flood
993 and you do NOT know the target's initial SQNR (which is normally the case) then
994 you may want to sweep through a range of sequence numbers:
996 mausezahn eth0 \-A legal.host.com \-B target.host.com \\
997 \-t tcp "sp=80,dp=80,s=1-4294967295"
999 Fortunately, the SQNR must match the target host's acknowledgement number plus
1000 the announced window size. Since the typical window size is something between
1001 40000 and 65535 you are MUCH quicker when using an increment via the ds argument:
1003 mausezahn eth0 \-A legal.host.com \-B target.host.com \\
1004 \-t tcp "sp=80, dp=80, s=1-4294967295, ds=40000"
1006 In the latter case mausezahn will only send 107375 packets instead of
1007 4294967295 (which results in a duration of approximately 1 second compared to
1008 11 hours!). Of course you can tailor any TCP packet you like. As with other L4
1009 protocols mausezahn builds a correct IP header but you can additionally access
1010 every field in the IP packet (also in the Ethernet frame).
1014 mausezahn supports UDP-based DNS requests or responses. Typically you may want
1015 to send a query or an answer. As usual, you can modify every flag in the header.
1016 Here is an example of a simple query:
1018 mausezahn eth0 \-B mydns-server.com \-t dns "q=www.ibm.com"
1020 You can also create server-type messages:
1022 mausezahn eth0 \-A spoofed.dns-server.com \-B target.host.com \\
1023 "q=www.topsecret.com, a=172.16.1.1"
1025 The syntax according to the online help (\-t dns help) is:
1027 query|q = <name>[:<type>] ............. where type is per default "A"
1028 (and class is always "IN")
1029 answer|a = [<type>:<ttl>:]<rdata> ...... ttl is per default 0.
1030 = [<type>:<ttl>:]<rdata>/[<type>:<ttl>:]<rdata>/...
1032 Note: If you only use the 'query' option then a query is sent. If you
1033 additionally add an 'answer' then an answer is sent. Examples:
1036 q = www.xyz.com, a=192.168.1.10
1037 q = www.xyz.com, a=A:3600:192.168.1.10
1038 q = www.xyz.com, a=CNAME:3600:abc.com/A:3600:192.168.1.10
1040 Please try out mausezahn \-t dns help to see the many other optional command
1043 .SS `-- RTP and VoIP path measurements:
1045 mausezahn can send arbitrary Real Time Protocol (RTP) packets. By default a
1046 classical G.711 codec packet of 20 ms segment size and 160 bytes is assumed. You
1047 can measure jitter, packet loss, and reordering along a path between two hosts
1048 running mausezahn. The jitter measurement is either done following the variance
1049 low-pass filtered estimation specified in RFC 3550 or using an alternative
1050 "real-time" method which is even more precise (the RFC-method is used by
1051 default). For example on Host1 you start a transmission process:
1053 mausezahn \-t rtp \-B 192.168.1.19
1055 And on Host2 (192.168.1.19) a receiving process which performs the measurement:
1059 Note that the option flag with the capital "T" means that it is a server RTP
1060 process, waiting for incoming RTP packets from any mausezahn source. In case
1061 you want to restrict the measurement to a specific source or you want to
1062 perform a bidirectional measurement, you must specify a stream identifier.
1063 Here is an example for bidirectional measurements which logs the running
1064 jitter average in a file:
1066 Host1# mausezahn \-t rtp id=11:11:11:11 \-B 192.168.2.2 &
1067 Host1# mausezahn \-T rtp id=22:22:22:22 "log, path=/tmp/mz/"
1069 Host2# mausezahn \-t rtp id=22:22:22:22 \-B 192.168.1.1 &
1070 Host2# mausezahn \-T rtp id=11:11:11:11 "log, path=/tmp/mz/"
1072 In any case the measurements are printed continuously onto the screen; by
1073 default it looks like this:
1076 |-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
1078 #################### 0.14 msec
1084 ############# 0.10 msec
1086 ########################################### 0.31 msec
1088 ############################################## 0.33 msec
1089 ############### 0.11 msec
1090 ########## 0.07 msec
1091 ############### 0.11 msec
1092 ########################################################## 0.42 msec
1095 More information is shown using the txt keyword:
1097 mausezahn \-T rtp txt
1098 Got 100 packets from host 192.168.0.3: 0 lost (0 absolute lost), 1 out of order
1099 Jitter_RFC (low pass filtered) = 30 usec
1100 Samples jitter (min/avg/max) = 1/186/2527 usec
1101 Delta-RX (min/avg/max) = 2010/20167/24805 usec
1102 Got 100 packets from host 192.168.0.3: 0 lost (0 absolute lost), 1 out of order
1103 Jitter_RFC (low pass filtered) = 17 usec
1104 Samples jitter (min/avg/max) = 1/53/192 usec
1105 Delta-RX (min/avg/max) = 20001/20376/20574 usec
1106 Got 100 packets from host 192.168.0.3: 0 lost (0 absolute lost), 1 out of order
1107 Jitter_RFC (low pass filtered) = 120 usec
1108 Samples jitter (min/avg/max) = 0/91/1683 usec
1109 Delta-RX (min/avg/max) = 18673/20378/24822 usec
1111 See mausezahn \-t rtp help and mz \-T rtp help for more details.
1115 The traditional Syslog protocol is widely used even in professional networks
1116 and is sometimes vulnerable. For example you might insert forged Syslog
1117 messages by spoofing your source address (e.g. impersonate the address of a
1118 legit network device):
1120 mausezahn \-t syslog sev=3 \-P "You have been mausezahned." \-A 10.1.1.109 \-B 192.168.7.7
1122 See mausezahn \-t syslog help for more details.
1126 When multiple ranges are specified, e.g. destination port ranges and
1127 destination address ranges, then all possible combinations of ports and
1128 addresses are used for packet generation. Furthermore, this can be mixed with
1129 other ranges e.g. a TCP sequence number range. Note that combining ranges
1130 can lead to a very huge number of frames to be sent. As a rule of thumb you
1131 can assume that about 100,000 frames and more are sent in a fraction of one
1132 second, depending on your network interface.
1134 mausezahn has been designed as a fast traffic generator so you might easily
1135 overwhelm a LAN segment with myriads of packets. And because mausezahn could
1136 also support security audits it is possible to create malicious or invalid
1137 packets, SYN floods, port and address sweeps, DNS and ARP poisoning, etc.
1139 Therefore, don't use this tool when you are not aware of the possible
1140 consequences or have only a little knowledge about networks and data
1141 communication. If you abuse mausezahn for 'unallowed' attacks and get caught,
1142 or damage something of your own, then this is completely your fault. So the
1143 safest solution is to try it out in a lab environment.
1145 Also have a look at the netsniff-ng(8) note section on how you can properly
1146 setup and tune your system.
1149 mausezahn is licensed under the GNU GPL version 2.0.
1153 was originally written by Herbert Haas. According to his website [1], he
1154 unfortunately passed away in 2011 thus leaving this tool unmaintained.
1155 It has been adopted and integrated into the netsniff-ng toolkit and is further
1156 being maintained and developed from there. Maintainers are Tobias Klauser
1157 <tklauser@distanz.ch> and Daniel Borkmann <dborkma@tik.ee.ethz.ch>.
1159 [1] http://www.perihel.at/
1162 .BR netsniff-ng (8),
1167 .BR astraceroute (8),
1171 Manpage was written by Herbert Haas and modified by Daniel Borkmann.
1174 This page is part of the Linux netsniff-ng toolkit project. A description of the project,
1175 and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://netsniff-ng.org/.