simulating dhcp requests?

[Kevin Dierking]

Will the tool be updated for IPV6?





Ragnar Lonn <ragnar at ghn.se> 
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Ricardo Stella wrote:

>Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> 
>
>>Is there a way to use dhclient to simulate a bunch of dhcp requests?
>>I'm trying to do a load test on our dhcp configuration.  But, dhclient
>>want to bind to an existing interface.  The other way I've briefly
>>considered is to generate the dhcprequest through the existing
>>interface and using linux netfilter to spoof random MAC addresses.
>>Thanks for any tips.
>>
>> 
>> 
>>
>
>You could try to script around using dhcping
>(http://www.mavetju.org/unix/dhcping-man.php), feeding it random MAC
>addresses...
>
>My .02...
>
> 
>

Or try our "dhcptool". Similar to dhcping but you can generate more 
arbitrary DHCP packets
with it. Released as open source.

http://gatorhole.com/index.php?product=dhcp&lang=gb

  /Ragnar



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