Development of a Network Attack Packet Generator for Security System Tests Using a Network Processor

摘要

Security systems are usually tested on the network before their releaseon the market for their security test and performance evaluation. It is desired that such a test is done on the real network environment. However, the test is usually done in a virtual test environment (a closed network environment), due to the possibly serious damages occurred during the test andpropagated through the network. It is specially the case when the real network environment is too sensitive or important to allow any corruption of network or system during the test, or when building a real-like test environment is too expensive. This paper presents a network attack packet generator, a system that generates high speed network attack packets to closely assimilate the real network environment for security system tests using an NP (a network processor equipped with an Intel chip).