[kwlug-disc] using "nc" to simulate a bunch of machines swapping packets?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Richard Weait wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 12:43 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Chris Frey wrote:
> > > Machine 1:
> > > 	nc -l -p 2222 > /dev/null
> > >
> > > Machine 2:
> > >
> > > 	nc machine1 2222 < /dev/zero
> > >
> > > This works on localhost as well.
> >
> >   actually, there was a bit more to it as i wanted these simulated
> > systems to have unique IP addresses, but i think i solved that by
> > simply ifconfig'ing a bunch of eth0:[1-n] IP addresses, and
> > associating an invocation of nc with each of those.  now it really
> > appears that i have a number of independent IP-addressed systems
> > passing around packets.
>
> Sounds like that might be fun with some old wireshark logs to
> playback "real" packets.

  try that again ... what are you describing here?

rday
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