Contents

  1. The Sun Packet Shell
    1. Availability and IPv6 support
    2. Description
    3. Comments
    4. Usage information
    5. Categories
    6. Source of information

The Sun Packet Shell

Availability and IPv6 support

Name

IPv6 support

Supported operating systems

The Sun Packet Shell

included

UNIX (with DLPI)

Description

The Sun Packet shell is used internally to verify IPV6 code and network behaviour correctness. This tool is designed to allow one to interact with the network DLPI driver to send/receive packets of any possible construction while writing ones script in a high level extension of Tcl/TK. Although relatively unknown outside of the protocol and firewall development/penetration testing community the Sun packet shell is a useful educational tool when accompanied with "TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1."STEVENS. for learning about network failure and morbid state modes.

Comments

There is also a non formally release version: 000714. Unsupported.

Usage information

Categories

CategoryApps, CategoryAppstesting_and_monitoring

Source of information

freshmeat

Campus6: Apps_The_Sun_Packet_Shell (last edited 2008-04-10 15:29:41 by localhost)