The DoS Attack Simulation Tool

The ping-rat tool is able to generate a packet with spoofed source address. It can be used to simulate an anonymous DoS attack. This tool was tested in Debian Sarge 3.1 Linux system, but it should work well in all Unix-like operating systems. After the download, to compile and install the ping-rat tool the user must type the following at the prompt:

$ tar xzvf ping-rat-VERSION.tar.gz
$ cd ping-rat-VERSION
$ ./configure
$ make

NOTE: This step may require super-user (root) privileges, depending on local system configuration.

$ make install

Where VERSION is the ping-rat version number. The initial version is 1.0. For more details, please read the ``INSTALL'' file of the distribution.

To run the program, just type as root:

$ ping-rat <SRC_HOST> <DST_HOST>

Then, a packet, whose source address is SRC_HOST, with a Generalized Bloom Filter integrated into the header will be sent to DST_HOST. If everything go well, will be printed in the screen a message like

ping-rat: datagram successfully sent.

Otherwise, an error message will inform what has gone wrong.