topic Re: Any way to test DoS protection policy in the lab setup in Advanced Threat Prevention Discussions

Any way to test DoS protection policy in the lab setup

Kalemegdan — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:15:22 GMT

Hello

i am looking for a way to test DoS protection policy in the lab environment before we implement it in production and wondering if there is tool (or linux-based traffic generator) that might be able to assist in generating traffic that will trigger DoS protection policy?

Re: Any way to test DoS protection policy in the lab setup

bvandivier — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:30:17 GMT

iPerf, Ostinato, Hping, and many others are available as open source traffic generators.

Re: Any way to test DoS protection policy in the lab setup

Kalemegdan — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:04:47 GMT

Thanks for your feedback.

Do you (or anyone else) have experience using any of these tools? And if you do, which one woudld you suggest?

Re: Any way to test DoS protection policy in the lab setup

bvandivier — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:12:25 GMT

In the interest of full discosure and as an employee of Palo Alto Networks I cannot endorse any specific third party product(s). I do have experience using multiple open source and proprietary tools but will defer to others to comment on which specific tools they recommend or prefer.

Re: Any way to test DoS protection policy in the lab setup

Kalemegdan — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:17:40 GMT

OK, thanks for a quick feedback and i do understand; i will wait a bit for others to provide any suggestions.

Appreciate your response..