RE: [PHP] vote package
| From: | Bob McConnell | Date: | Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:34:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] vote package | ||
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From: Noel Butler
> On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 08:33 -0400, Bob McConnell wrote:
>
> Forging IP addresses is actually quite simple. VMs do it all the
time
> when bridged to the real NIC. There are also some projects on
Source
> Forge designed to load test HTTP servers that do similar things.
I have
> an application I wrote for testing that can emulate an entire
class B
> subnet full of computers. All it takes is a little digging
around on
> Google, a FreeBSD system installed in a VM and a little
knowledge of the
> local network topology. In my case I have several blocks of
addresses
> allocated by the local administrator for this test bed.
>
> sorry if this explodes your bubble, but you dont need freebsd to do it
:)
Yes, I know. I only mentioned FreeBSD because I have actually used it.
It was already available in a VM because I was playing with DummyNet for
another test bed project. But I haven't tried similar tasks on Linux
yet.
Bob McConnell