netcat - UDP Broadcast

[anomie]

Here it is ~ 1 week later - are you still around?

I've been playing around with a utility tonight that may interest you: hping2.

What if you could encapsulate data from a file in udp packets? You may be able to redirect the data you need to a specified file, then send the contents of the file to remote host's udp port 9999 using hping2.

[elluk]

Hi anomie,

Thanks for your response.

I have played with hping in the past.

Perhaps your right, it could be used for this purpose.

As you know, I basically wanted to generate constant broadcast traffic (for my lab environment)

On windows (cygwin) I use:
nc -u 192.168.1.255 9999 < /dev/random


I'll check out hping now and see if it's up to the job.

Thanks for the suggestion.