Ostinato is an open, scalable packet/traffic generator designed for networking protocol development, functional testing, performance testing, and security testing, targeting programmers, QA testers, and security researchers. It offers a range of deployment options across various operating systems, supports low to high-end use cases, and aims to provide cost-effective alternatives to commercial tools. The tool allows for advanced protocol customization and features a GUI for easy control and statistics management.

1. OSTINATO
An open, scalable packet/traffic generator
Srivats P.

2. Agenda
What – Who?
Existing Solutions
Advantage Ostinato
Supported OS
Architecture
Deployment Options
Typical Usage
Feature Tour
History and Current Status
Contributing
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3. What - Who?
What is it for?
Networking Protocol Development and Analysis
Functional Testing
Performance Testing
Security Testing
Penetration Testing
Who is it for?
Programmers/Developers
QA Testers
Security Researchers
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4. Existing Solutions
Low-End Medium-End High-End
Freeware Open Source Commercial
PC Cross Platform Fully Featured
Win Only CLI (mostly) Dedicated H/W
Simplistic Limited Protocols Expensive
Crippled Limited Controls => Insufficient
Don't scale Narrow Focus Overkill
No Controlled
Environment
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5. Advantage Ostinato
Scales from low-end to high-end use cases
Viable Alternative to Commercial Tools
Cost Savings
Productivity Improvement
Facilitates new Testing Scenarios
Frees up ports for where they are really needed
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6. Supported OS
Windows Linux Mac OS X BSD
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7. Architecture
GUI
Configuration
Control
Results
Client
(Ostinato)
Open Protocol
Packet Generation Server
Packet Capture (Drone)
Statistics
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8. Deployment Options
PC Application Live CD/USB DD-WRT opkg
PC runs both client and Convert any PC to a dedicated Package Drone (server) for
server applications traffic generator DD-WRT
Repurpose Custom Ostinato Hardware
Hardware
Port Drone (server) for custom Ostinato hardware running
hardware Drone (server)
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9. Late Breaking News …
OSTINATO +
= 20 Gbps !
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10. Typical Usage
Tester DUT Tester DUT
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11. Feature Tour (Layout)
Ports
Streams
Controls
Statistics
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12. Feature Tour (Protocols)
Any text based
Protocol e.g. SIP,
HTTP, RTSP,
NNTP etc.
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13. Feature Tour (Protocols)
Modify
ANY field
of ANY protocol
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14. Feature Tour (Advanced Protocols)
Stack protocols
in arbitrary
order
Userscript
Protocol
(EXPERIMENTAL)
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15. Feature Tour (Stream Controls)
Rates
Packets
Bursts
Order
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16. History and Current Status
2007 – Started Hacking
Apr 2010 – First public release 0.1
Nov 2010 – Latest release 0.3
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17. Contributing
Spreading the word – blog, social media etc.
Packagers/Maintainers
Testing/QA
Programming
C++
Qt Toolkit
Protocol Buffers
LibPcap/WinPcap
Mercurial (Hg)
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18. More Info
@ostinato
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ostinato@googlegroups.com
Srivats P. <pstavirs@gmail.com>
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19. That's all folks!
Questions?
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20. What does Ostinato mean anyway?
What does Ostinato mean?
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