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NAME
mausezahn - a fast versatile packet generator with Cisco-cli
SYNOPSIS
mausezahn { [options] "<arg-string> | <hex-string>" }
DESCRIPTION
mausezahn is a fast traffic generator which allows you to send nearly every possible and
impossible packet. In contrast to trafgen(8), mausezahn's packet configuration is on a
protocol-level instead of byte-level and mausezahn also comes with a built-in Cisco-like
command-line interface, making it suitable as a network traffic generator box in your
network lab.
Next to network labs, it can also be used as a didactical tool and for security audits
including penetration and DoS testing. As a traffic generator, mausezahn is also able to
test IP multicast or VoIP networks. Packet rates close to the physical limit are
reachable, depending on the hardware platform.
mausezahn supports two modes, ''direct mode'' and a multi-threaded ''interactive mode''.
The ''direct mode'' allows you to create a packet directly on the command line and every
packet parameter is specified in the argument list when calling mausezahn.
The ''interactive mode'' is an advanced multi-threaded configuration mode with its own
command line interface (CLI). This mode allows you to create an arbitrary number of packet
types and streams in parallel, each with different parameters.
The interactive mode utilizes a completely redesigned and more flexible protocol framework
called ''mops'' (mausezahn's own packet system). The look and feel of the CLI is very
close to the Cisco IOS^tm command line interface.
You can start the interactive mode by executing mausezahn with the ''-x'' argument (an
optional port number may follow, otherwise it is 25542). Then use telnet(1) to connect to
this mausezahn instance. If not otherwise specified, the default login and password
combination is mz:mz and the enable password is: mops. This can be changed in
/etc/netsniff-ng/mausezahn.conf.
The direct mode supports two specification schemes: The ''raw-layer-2'' scheme, where
every single byte to be sent can be specified, and ''higher-layer'' scheme, where packet
builder interfaces are used (using the ''-t'' option).
To use the ''raw-layer-2'' scheme, simply specify the desired frame as a hexadecimal
sequence (the ''hex-string''), such as:
mausezahn eth0 "00:ab:cd:ef:00 00:00:00:00:00:01 08:00 ca:fe:ba:be"
In this example, whitespaces within the byte string are optional and separate the Ethernet
fields (destination and source address, type field, and a short payload). The only
additional options supported are ''-a'', ''-b'', ''-c'', and ''-p''. The frame length must
be greater than or equal to 15 bytes.
The ''higher-layer'' scheme is enabled using the ''-t <packet-type>'' option. This option
activates a packet builder, and besides the ''packet-type'', an optional ''arg-string''
can be specified. The ''arg-string'' contains packet- specific parameters, such as TCP
flags, port numbers, etc. (see example section).
OPTIONS
mausezahn provides a built-in context-specific help. Append the keyword
''help'' after the configuration options. The most important options are:
-x [<port>]
Start mausezahn in interactive mode with a Cisco-like CLI. Use telnet to log into the
local mausezahn instance. If no port has been specified, port 25542 is used by default.
-6
Specify IPv6 mode (IPv4 is the default).
-l <IP>
Specify the IP address mausezahn should bind to when in interactive mode, default:
0.0.0.0.
-R <PRIO>
Set priority of sent packets. This configures SO_PRIORITY at the socket through which the
packets are sent. Usual priority numbers are 0..15, but the value can also be a class ID
for purposes of Qdisc classification. In that case, a class ID such is 1234:5678 would be
specified as 0x12345678.
-v
Verbose mode. Capital -V is even more verbose.
-S
Simulation mode, i.e. don't put anything on the wire. This is typically combined with the
verbose mode.
-q
Quiet mode where only warnings and errors are displayed.
-c <count>
Send the packet count times (default: 1, infinite: 0).
-d <delay>
Apply delay between transmissions. The delay value can be specified in usec (default, no
additional unit needed), or in msec (e.g. 100m or 100msec), or in seconds (e.g. 100s or
100sec). Note: mops also supports nanosecond delay resolution if you need it (see
interactive mode).
-r
Multiply the specified delay with a random value.
-p <length>
Pad the raw frame to specified length using zero bytes. Note that for raw layer 2 frames
the specified length defines the whole frame length, while for higher layer packets the
number of additional padding bytes are specified.
-a <src-mac|keyword>
Use specified source MAC address with hexadecimal notation such as 00:00:aa:bb:cc:dd. By
default the interface MAC address will be used. The keywords ''rand'' and ''own'' refer to
a random MAC address (only unicast addresses are created) and the own address,
respectively. You can also use the keywords mentioned below although broadcast-type source
addresses are officially invalid.
-b <dst-mac|keyword>
Use specified destination MAC address. By default, a broadcast is sent in raw layer 2 mode
or to the destination hosts or gateway interface MAC address in normal (IP) mode. You can
use the same keywords as mentioned above, as well as ''bc'' or ''bcast'', ''cisco'', and
''stp''.
-A <src-ip|range|rand>
Use specified source IP address, default is own interface address. Optionally, the keyword
''rand'' can again be used for a random source IP address or a range can be specified,
such as ''192.168.1.1-192.168.1.100'' or ''10.1.0.0/16''. Also, a DNS name can be
specified for which mausezahn tries to determine the corresponding IP address
automatically.
-B <dst-ip|range>
Use specified destination IP address (default is broadcast i.e. 255.255.255.255). As with
the source address (see above) you can also specify a range or a DNS name.
-t <packet-type [help] | help>
Create the specified packet type using the built-in packet builder. Currently, supported
packet types are: ''arp'', ''bpdu'', ''ip'', ''udp'', ''tcp'', ''rtp'', and ''dns''.
Currently, there is also limited support for ''icmp''. Type
''-t help'' to verify which packet builders your actual mausezahn version supports. Also,
for any particular packet type, for example ''tcp'' type
''mausezahn -t tcp help'' to receive a more in-depth context specific help.
-T <packet-type>
Make this mausezahn instance the receiving station. Currently, only ''rtp'' is an option
here and provides precise jitter measurements. For this purpose, start another mausezahn
instance on the sending station and the local receiving station will output jitter
statistics. See ''mausezahn -T rtp help'' for a detailed help.
-Q <[CoS:]vlan> [, <[CoS:]vlan>, ...]
Specify 802.1Q VLAN tag and optional Class of Service. An arbitrary number of VLAN tags
can be specified (that is, you can simulate QinQ or even QinQinQinQ..). Multiple tags
must be separated via a comma or a period (e.g. "5:10,20,2:30"). VLAN tags are not
supported for ARP and BPDU packets (in which case you could specify the whole frame in
hexadecimal using the raw layer 2 interface of mausezahn).
-M <label[:cos[:ttl]][bos]> [, <label...>]
Specify a MPLS label or even a MPLS label stack. Optionally, for each label the
experimental bits (usually the Class of Service, CoS) and the Time To Live (TTL) can be
specified. If you are really crazy you can set and unset the Bottom of Stack (BoS) bit for
each label using the ''S'' (set) and ''s'' (unset) option. By default, the BoS is set
automatically and correctly. Any other setting will lead to invalid frames. Enter ''-M
help'' for detailed instructions and examples.
-P <ascii-payload>
Specify a cleartext payload. Alternatively, each packet type supports a hexadecimal
specification of the payload (see for example ''-t udp help'').
-f <filename>
Read the ASCII payload from the specified file.
-F <filename>
Read the hexadecimal payload from the specified file. Actually, this file must be also an
ASCII text file, but must contain hexadecimal digits, e.g. "aa:bb:cc:0f:e6...". You can
use also spaces as separation characters.
USAGE EXAMPLE
For more comprehensive examples, have a look at the two following HOWTO sections.
mausezahn eth0 -c 0 -d 2s -t bpdu vlan=5
Send BPDU frames for VLAN 5 as used with Cisco's PVST+ type of STP. By default mausezahn
assumes that you want to become the root bridge.
mausezahn eth0 -c 128000 -a rand -p 64
Perform a CAM table overflow attack.
mausezahn eth0 -c 0 -Q 5,100 -t tcp flags=syn,dp=1-1023 -p 20 -A rand -B 10.100.100.0/24
Perform a SYN flood attack to another VLAN using VLAN hopping. This only works if you are
connected to the same VLAN which is configured as native VLAN on the trunk. We assume that
the victim VLAN is VLAN 100 and the native VLAN is VLAN 5. Lets attack every host in VLAN
100 which use an IP prefix of 10.100.100.0/24, also try out all ports between 1 and 1023
and use a random source IP address.
mausezahn eth0 -c 0 -d 10msec -B 230.1.1.1 -t udp dp=32000,dscp=46 -P Multicast test packet
Send IP multicast packets to the multicast group 230.1.1.1 using a UDP header with
destination port 32000 and set the IP DSCP field to EF (46). Send one frame every 10 msec.
mausezahn eth0 -Q 6:420 -M 100,200,300:5 -A 172.30.0.0/16 -B target.anynetwork.foo -t udp
sp=666,dp=1-65535 -p 1000 -c 10
Send UDP packets to the destination host target.anynetwork.foo using all possible
destination ports and send every packet with all possible source addresses of the range
172.30.0.0/16; additionally use a source port of 666 and three MPLS labels, 100, 200, and
300, the outer (300) with QoS field 5. Send the frame with a VLAN tag 420 and CoS 6;
eventually pad with 1000 bytes and repeat the whole thing 10 times.
mausezahn -t syslog sev=3 -P Main reactor reached critical temperature. -A 192.168.33.42 -B
10.1.1.9 -c 6 -d 10s
Send six forged syslog messages with severity 3 to a Syslog server 10.1.1.9; use a forged
source IP address 192.168.33.42 and let mausezahn decide which local interface to use. Use
an inter-packet delay of 10 seconds.
mausezahn -t tcp flags=syn|urg|rst, sp=145, dp=145, win=0, s=0-4294967295, ds=1500, urg=666 -a
bcast -b bcast -A bcast -B 10.1.1.6 -p 5
Send an invalid TCP packet with only a 5 byte payload as layer-2 broadcast and also use
the broadcast MAC address as source address. The target should be 10.1.1.6 but use a
broadcast source address. The source and destination port shall be 145 and the window size
0. Set the TCP flags SYN, URG, and RST simultaneously and sweep through the whole TCP
sequence number space with an increment of 1500. Finally set the urgent pointer to 666,
i.e. pointing to nowhere.
CONFIGURATION FILE
When mausezahn is run in interactive mode it automatically looks for and reads a
configuration file located at /etc/netsniff-ng/mausezahn.conf for custom options if the
file is available, otherwise it uses defaults set at compile time.
Config file: /etc/netsniff-ng/mausezahn.conf
The configuration file contains lines of the form:
option = value
Options supported in the configuration file are:
Option: Description:
user Username for authentication (default: mz)
password Password for authentication (default: mz)
enable Password to enter privilege mode (default: mops)
port The listening port for the CLI (default: 25542)
listen-addr IP address to bind CLI to (default: 0.0.0.0)
management-only Set management interface (no data traffic is allowed to pass through)
cli-device Interface to bind CLI to (default: all) *not fully implemented*
automops Path to automops file (contains XML data describing protocols) *in
development*
Example:
$ cat /etc/netsniff-ng/mausezahn.conf
user = mzadmin
password = mzpasswd
enable = privilege-mode-passwd
port = 65000
listen-addr = 127.0.0.1
INTERACTIVE MODE HOWTO
Telnet:
Using the interactive mode requires starting mausezahn as a server:
# mausezahn -x
Now you can telnet(1) to that server using the default port number 25542, but also an
arbitrary port number can be specified:
# mausezahn -x 99
mausezahn accepts incoming telnet connections on port 99.
mz: Problems opening config file. Will use defaults
Either from another terminal or from another host try to telnet to the mausezahn server:
caprica$ telnet galactica 99
Trying 192.168.0.4...
Connected to galactica.
Escape character is '^]'.
mausezahn <version>
Username: mz
Password: mz
mz> enable
Password: mops
mz#
It is recommended to configure your own login credentials in /etc/netsniff-
ng/mausezahn.conf, (see configuration file section)
Basics:
Since you reached the mausezahn prompt, lets try some common commands. You can use the '?'
character at any time for context-specific help. Note that Cisco-like short form of
commands are accepted in interactive mode. For example, one can use "sh pac" instead of
"show packet"; another common example is to use "config t" in place of "configure
terminal". For readability, this manual will continue with the full commands.
First try out the show command:
mz# show ?
mausezahn maintains its own ARP table and observes anomalies. There is an entry for every
physical interface (however this host has only one):
mz# show arp
Intf Index IP address MAC address last Ch UCast BCast Info
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
eth0 [1] D 192.168.0.1 00:09:5b:9a:15:84 23:44:41 1 1 0 0000
The column Ch tells us that the announced MAC address has only changed one time (= when it
was learned). The columns Ucast and BCast tell us how often this entry was announced via
unicast or broadcast respectively.
Let's check our interfaces:
mz# show interface
Available network interfaces:
real real used (fake) used (fake)
device IPv4 address MAC address IPv4 address MAC address
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> eth0 192.168.0.4 00:30:05:76:2e:8d 192.168.0.4 00:30:05:76:2e:8d
lo 127.0.0.1 00:00:00:00:00:00 127.0.0.1 00:00:00:00:00:00
2 interfaces found.
Default interface is eth0.
Defining packets:
Let's check the current packet list:
mz# show packet
Packet layer flags: E=Ethernet, S=SNAP, Q=802.1Q, M=MPLS, I/i=IP/delivery_off, U=UDP,
T=TCP
PktID PktName Layers Proto Size State Device Delay
Count/CntX
1 sysARP_servic... E----- ARP 60 config lo 100 msec
1/0 (100%)
1 packets defined, 0 active.
We notice that there is already one system-defined packet process; it has been created and
used only once (during startup) by mausezahn's ARP service. Currently, its state is
config which means that the process is sleeping.
General packet options:
Now let's create our own packet process and switch into the global configuration mode:
mz# configure terminal
mz(config)# packet
Allocated new packet PKT0002 at slot 2
mz(config-pkt-2)# ?
...
name Assign a unique name
description Assign a packet description text
bind Select the network interface
count Configure the packet count value
delay Configure the inter-packet delay
interval Configure a greater interval
type Specify packet type
mac Configure packet's MAC addresses
tag Configure tags
payload Configure a payload
port Configure packet's port numbers
end End packet configuration mode
ethernet Configure frame's Ethernet, 802.2, 802.3, or SNAP settings
ip Configure packet's IP settings
udp Configure packet's UDP header parameters
tcp Configure packet's TCP header parameters
Here are a lot of options but normally you only need a few of them. When you configure
lots of different packets you might assign a reasonable name and description for them:
mz(config-pkt-2)# name Test
mz(config-pkt-2)# description This is just a test
You can, for example, change the default settings for the source and destination MAC or IP
addresses using the mac and ip commands:
mz(config-pkt-2)# ip address destination 10.1.1.0 /24
mz(config-pkt-2)# ip address source random
In the example above, we configured a range of addresses (all hosts in the network
10.1.1.0 should be addressed). Additionally we spoof our source IP address. Of course, we
can also add one or more VLAN and, or, MPLS tag(s):
mz(config-pkt-2)# tag ?
dot1q Configure 802.1Q (and 802.1P) parameters
mpls Configure MPLS label stack
mz(config-pkt-2)# tag dot ?
Configure 802.1Q tags:
VLAN[:CoS] [VLAN[:CoS]] ... The leftmost tag is the outer tag in the frame
remove <tag-nr> | all Remove one or more tags (<tag-nr> starts with 1),
by default the first (=leftmost,outer) tag is removed,
keyword 'all' can be used instead of tag numbers.
cfi | nocfi [<tag-nr>] Set or unset the CFI-bit in any tag (by default
assuming the first tag).
mz(config-pkt-2)# tag dot 1:7 200:5
Configure count and delay:
mz(config-pkt-2)# count 1000
mz(config-pkt-2)# delay ?
delay <value> [hour | min | sec | msec | usec | nsec]
Specify the inter-packet delay in hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds, microseconds or
nanoseconds. The default unit is milliseconds (i.e. when no unit is given).
mz(config-pkt-2)# delay 1 msec
Inter-packet delay set to 0 sec and 1000000 nsec
mz(config-pkt-2)#
Configuring protocol types:
mausezahn's interactive mode supports a growing list of protocols and only relies on the
MOPS architecture (and not on libnet as is the case with the legacy direct mode):
mz(config-pkt-2)# type
Specify a packet type from the following list:
arp
bpdu
igmp
ip
lldp
tcp
udp
mz(config-pkt-2)# type tcp
mz(config-pkt-2-tcp)#
....
seqnr Configure the TCP sequence number
acknr Configure the TCP acknowledgement number
hlen Configure the TCP header length
reserved Configure the TCP reserved field
flags Configure a combination of TCP flags at once
cwr Set or unset the TCP CWR flag
ece Set or unset the TCP ECE flag
urg Set or unset the TCP URG flag
ack set or unset the TCP ACK flag
psh set or unset the TCP PSH flag
rst set or unset the TCP RST flag
syn set or unset the TCP SYN flag
fin set or unset the TCP FIN flag
window Configure the TCP window size
checksum Configure the TCP checksum
urgent-pointer Configure the TCP urgent pointer
options Configure TCP options
end End TCP configuration mode
mz(config-pkt-2-tcp)# flags syn fin rst
Current setting is: --------------------RST-SYN-FIN
mz(config-pkt-2-tcp)# end
mz(config-pkt-2)# payload ascii This is a dummy payload for my first packet
mz(config-pkt-2)# end
Now configure another packet, for example let's assume we want an LLDP process:
mz(config)# packet
Allocated new packet PKT0003 at slot 3
mz(config-pkt-3)# type lldp
mz(config-pkt-3-lldp)# exit
mz(config)# exit
In the above example we only use the default LLDP settings and don't configure further
LLDP options or TLVs. Back in the top level of the CLI let's verify what we had done:
mz# show packet
Packet layer flags: E=Ethernet, S=SNAP, Q=802.1Q, M=MPLS, I/i=IP/delivery_off, U=UDP,
T=TCP
PktID PktName Layers Proto Size State Device Delay
Count/CntX
1 sysARP_servic... E----- ARP 60 config lo 100 msec 1/0
(100%)
2 Test E-Q-IT 125 config eth0 1000 usec
1000/1000 (0%)
3 PKT0003 E----- LLDP 36 config eth0 30 sec 0/0
(0%)
3 packets defined, 0 active.
The column Layers indicates which major protocols have been combined. For example the
packet with packet-id 2 ("Test") utilizes Ethernet (E), IP (I), and TCP (T). Additionally
an 802.1Q tag (Q) has been inserted. Now start one of these packet processes:
mz# start slot 3
Activate [3]
mz# show packet
Packet layer flags: E=Ethernet, S=SNAP, Q=802.1Q, M=MPLS, I/i=IP/delivery_off, U=UDP,
T=TCP
PktID PktName Layers Proto Size State Device Delay
Count/CntX
1 sysARP_servic... E----- ARP 60 config lo 100 msec 1/0
(100%)
2 Test E-Q-IT 125 config eth0 1000 usec
1000/1000 (0%)
3 PKT0003 E----- LLDP 36 config eth0 30 sec 0/1
(0%)
3 packets defined, 1 active.
Let's have a more detailed look at a specific packet process:
mz# show packet 2
Packet [2] Test
Description: This is just a test
State: config, Count=1000, delay=1000 usec (0 s 1000000 nsec), interval= (undefined)
Headers:
Ethernet: 00-30-05-76-2e-8d => ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff [0800 after 802.1Q tag]
Auto-delivery is ON (that is, the actual MAC is adapted upon transmission)
802.1Q: 0 tag(s); (VLAN:CoS)
IP: SA=192.168.0.4 (not random) (no range)
DA=255.255.255.255 (no range)
ToS=0x00 proto=17 TTL=255 ID=0 offset=0 flags: -|-|-
len=49664(correct) checksum=0x2e8d(correct)
TCP: 83 bytes segment size (including TCP header)
SP=0 (norange) (not random), DP=0 (norange) (not random)
SQNR=3405691582 (start 0, stop 4294967295, delta 0) -- ACKNR=0 (invalid)
Flags: ------------------------SYN----, reserved field is 00, urgent pointer= 0
Announced window size= 100
Offset= 0 (times 32 bit; value is valid), checksum= ffff (valid)
(No TCP options attached) - 0 bytes defined
Payload size: 43 bytes
Frame size: 125 bytes
1 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:30 05:76:2e:8d:81:00:e0:01 81:00:a0:c8:08:00:45:00
00:67:00:00:00:00:ff:06
33 fa:e4:c0:a8:00:04:ff:ff ff:ff:00:00:00:00:ca:fe ba:be:00:00:00:00:a0:07
00:64:f7:ab:00:00:02:04
65 05:ac:04:02:08:0a:19:35 90:c3:00:00:00:00:01:03 03:05:54:68:69:73:20:69
73:20:61:20:64:75:6d:6d
97 79:20:70:61:79:6c:6f:61 64:20:66:6f:72:20:6d:79 20:66:69:72:73:74:20:70
61:63:6b:65:74
mz#
If you want to stop one or more packet processes, use the stop command. The "emergency
stop" is when you use stop all:
mz# stop all
Stopping
[3] PKT0003
Stopped 1 transmission processe(s)
The launch command provides a shortcut for commonly used packet processes. For example to
behave like a STP-capable bridge we want to start an BPDU process with typical parameters:
mz# launch bpdu
Allocated new packet sysBPDU at slot 5
mz# show packet
Packet layer flags: E=Ethernet, S=SNAP, Q=802.1Q, M=MPLS, I/i=IP/delivery_off, U=UDP,
T=TCP
PktID PktName Layers Proto Size State Device Delay
Count/CntX
1 sysARP_servic... E----- ARP 60 config lo 100 msec
1/0 (100%)
2 Test E-Q-IT 125 config eth0 1000 usec
1000/1000 (0%)
3 PKT0003 E----- LLDP 36 config eth0 30 sec
0/12 (0%)
4 PKT0004 E---I- IGMP 46 config eth0 100 msec
0/0 (0%)
5 sysBPDU ES---- BPDU 29 active eth0 2 sec
0/1 (0%)
5 packets defined, 1 active.
Now a Configuration BPDU is sent every 2 seconds, claiming to be the root bridge (and
usually confusing the LAN. Note that only packet 5 (i.e. the last row) is active and
therefore sending packets while all other packets are in state config (i.e. they have been
configured but they are not doing anything at the moment).
Configuring a greater interval:
Sometimes you may want to send a burst of packets at a greater interval:
mz(config)# packet 2
Modify packet parameters for packet Test [2]
mz(config-pkt-2)# interval
Configure a greater packet interval in days, hours, minutes, or seconds
Arguments: <value> <days | hours | minutes | seconds>
Use a zero value to disable an interval.
mz(config-pkt-2)# interval 1 hour
mz(config-pkt-2)# count 10
mz(config-pkt-2)# delay 15 usec
Inter-packet delay set to 0 sec and 15000 nsec
Now this packet is sent ten times with an inter-packet delay of 15 microseconds and this
is repeated every hour. When you look at the packet list, an interval is indicated with
the additional flag 'i' when inactive or 'I' when active:
mz# show packet
Packet layer flags: E=Ethernet, S=SNAP, Q=802.1Q, M=MPLS, I/i=IP/delivery_off, U=UDP,
T=TCP
PktID PktName Layers Proto Size State Device Delay
Count/CntX
1 sysARP_servic... E----- ARP 60 config lo 100 msec
1/0 (100%)
2 Test E-Q-IT 125 config-i eth0 15 usec
10/10 (0%)
3 PKT0003 E----- LLDP 36 config eth0 30 sec
0/12 (0%)
4 PKT0004 E---I- IGMP 46 config eth0 100 msec
0/0 (0%)
5 sysBPDU ES---- BPDU 29 active eth0 2 sec
0/251 (0%)
5 packets defined, 1 active.
mz# start slot 2
Activate [2]
mz# show packet
Packet layer flags: E=Ethernet, S=SNAP, Q=802.1Q, M=MPLS, I/i=IP/delivery_off, U=UDP,
T=TCP
PktID PktName Layers Proto Size State Device Delay
Count/CntX
1 sysARP_servic... E----- ARP 60 config lo 100 msec
1/0 (100%)
2 Test E-Q-IT 125 config+I eth0 15 usec
10/0 (100%)
3 PKT0003 E----- LLDP 36 config eth0 30 sec
0/12 (0%)
4 PKT0004 E---I- IGMP 46 config eth0 100 msec
0/0 (0%)
5 sysBPDU ES---- BPDU 29 active eth0 2 sec
0/256 (0%)
5 packets defined, 1 active.
Note that the flag 'I' indicates that an interval has been specified for packet 2. The
process is not active at the moment (only packet 5 is active here) but it will become
active at a regular interval. You can verify the actual interval when viewing the packet
details via the 'show packet 2' command.
Load prepared configurations:
You can prepare packet configurations using the same commands as you would type them in on
the CLI and then load them to the CLI. For example, assume we have prepared a file
'test.mops' containing:
configure terminal
packet
name IGMP_TEST
desc This is only a demonstration how to load a file to mops
type igmp
Then we can add this packet configuration to our packet list using the load command:
mz# load test.mops
Read commands from test.mops...
Allocated new packet PKT0002 at slot 2
mz# show packet
Packet layer flags: E=Ethernet, S=SNAP, Q=802.1Q, M=MPLS, I/i=IP/delivery_off, U=UDP,
T=TCP
PktID PktName Layers Proto Size State Device Delay
Count/CntX
1 sysARP_servic... E----- ARP 60 config lo 100 msec
1/0 (100%)
2 IGMP_TEST E---I- IGMP 46 config eth0 100 msec
0/0 (0%)
2 packets defined, 0 active.
The file src/examples/mausezahn/example_lldp.conf contains another example list of
commands to create a bogus LLDP packet. You can load this configuration from the mausezahn
command line as follows:
mz# load /home/hh/tmp/example_lldp.conf
In case you copied the file in that path. Now when you enter 'show packet' you will see a
new packet entry in the packet list. Use the 'start slot <nr>' command to activate this
packet.
You can store your own packet creations in such a file and easily load them when you need
them. Every command within such configuration files is executed on the command line
interface as if you had typed it in -- so be careful about the order and don't forget to
use 'configure terminal' as first command.
You can even load other files from within a central config file.
DIRECT MODE HOWTO
How to specify hexadecimal digits:
Many arguments allow direct byte input. Bytes are represented as two hexadecimal digits.
Multiple bytes must be separated either by spaces, colons, or dashes - whichever you
prefer. The following byte strings are equivalent:
"aa:bb cc-dd-ee ff 01 02 03-04 05"
"aa bb cc dd ee ff:01:02:03:04 05"
To begin with, you may want to send an arbitrary fancy (possibly invalid) frame right
through your network card:
mausezahn ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:08:00:ca:fe:ba:be
or equivalent but more readable:
mausezahn ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff-ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff-08:00-ca:fe:ba:be
Basic operations:
All major command line options are listed when you execute mausezahn without arguments.
For practical usage, keep the following special (not so widely known) options in mind:
-r Multiplies the specified delay with a random value.
-p <length> Pad the raw frame to specified length (using random bytes).
-P <ASCII Payload> Use the specified ASCII payload.
-f <filename> Read the ASCII payload from a file.
-F <filename> Read the hexadecimal payload from a file.
-S Simulation mode: DOES NOT put anything on the wire.
This is typically combined with one of the verbose
modes (-v or V).
Many options require a keyword or a number but the -t option is an exception since it
requires both a packet type (such as ip, udp, dns, etc) and an argument string which is
specific for that packet type. Here are some simple examples:
mausezahn -t help
mausezahn -t tcp help
mausezahn eth3 -t udp sp=69,dp=69,p=ca:fe:ba:be
Note: Don't forget that on the CLI the Linux shell (usually the Bash) interprets spaces as
a delimiting character. That is, if you are specifying an argument that consists of
multiple words with spaces in between, you MUST group these within quotes. For example,
instead of
mausezahn eth0 -t udp sp=1,dp=80,p=00:11:22:33
you could either omit the spaces
mausezahn eth0 -t udp sp=1,dp=80,p=00:11:22:33
or, for greater safety, use quotes:
mausezahn eth0 -t udp "sp=1,dp=80,p=00:11:22:33"
In order to monitor what's going on, you can enable the verbose mode using the -v option.
The opposite is the quiet mode (-q) which will keep mausezahn absolutely quiet (except for
error messages and warnings.)
Don't confuse the payload argument p=... with the padding option -p. The latter is used
outside the quotes!
The automatic packet builder:
An important argument is -t which invokes a packet builder. Currently there are packet
builders for ARP, BPDU, CDP, IP, partly ICMP, UDP, TCP, RTP, DNS, and SYSLOG.
(Additionally you can insert a VLAN tag or a MPLS label stack but this works independently
of the packet builder.)
You get context specific help for every packet builder using the help keyword, such as:
mausezahn -t bpdu help
mausezahn -t tcp help
For every packet you may specify an optional payload. This can be done either via
hexadecimal notation using the payload (or short p) argument or directly as ASCII text
using the -P option:
mausezahn eth0 -t ip -P "Hello World" # ASCII payload
mausezahn eth0 -t ip p=68:65:6c:6c:6f:20:77:6f:72:6c:64 # hex payload
mausezahn eth0 -t ip "proto=89, \
p=68:65:6c:6c:6f:20:77:6f:72:6c:64, \ # same with other
ttl=1" # IP arguments
Note: The raw link access mode only accepts hexadecimal payloads (because you specify
everything in hexadecimal here.)
Packet count and delay:
By default only one packet is sent. If you want to send more packets then use the count
option -c <count>. When count is zero then mausezahn will send forever. By default,
mausezahn sends at maximum speed (and this is really fast ;-)). If you don't want to
overwhelm your network devices or have other reasons to send at a slower rate then you
might want to specify a delay using the -d <delay> option.
If you only specify a numeric value it is interpreted in microsecond units.
Alternatively, for easier use, you might specify units such as seconds, sec, milliseconds,
or msec. (You can also abbreviate this with s or m.) Note: Don't use spaces between the
value and the unit! Here are typical examples:
Send an infinite number of frames as fast as possible:
mausezahn -c 0 "aa bb cc dd ...."
Send 100,000 frames with a 50 msec interval:
mausezahn -c 100000 -d 50msec "aa bb cc dd ...."
Send an unlimited number of BPDU frames in a 2 second interval:
mausezahn -c 0 -d 2s -t bpdu conf
Note: mausezahn does not support fractional numbers. If you want to specify for example
2.5 seconds then express this in milliseconds (2500 msec).
Source and destination addresses:
As a mnemonic trick keep in mind that all packets run from "A" to "B". You can always
specify source and destination MAC addresses using the -a and -b options, respectively.
These options also allow keywords such as rand, own, bpdu, cisco, and others.
Similarly, you can specify source and destination IP addresses using the -A and -B
options, respectively. These options also support FQDNs (i.e. domain names) and ranges
such as 192.168.0.0/24 or 10.0.0.11-10.0.3.22. Additionally, the source address option
supports the rand keyword (ideal for "attacks").
Note: When you use the packet builder for IP-based packets (e.g. UDP or TCP) then
mausezahn automatically cares about correct MAC and IP addresses (i.e. it performs ARP,
DHCP, and DNS for you). But when you specify at least a single link-layer address (or any
other L2 option such as a VLAN tag or MPLS header) then ARP is disabled and you must care
for the Ethernet destination address for yourself.
Layer-2:
`-- Direct link access:
mausezahn allows you to send ANY chain of bytes directly through your Ethernet interface:
mausezahn eth0 "ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 00:00 ca:fe:ba:be"
This way you can craft every packet you want but you must do it by hand. Note: On Wi-Fi
interfaces the header is much more complicated and automatically created by the Wi-Fi
driver. As an example to introduce some interesting options, lets continuously send frames
at max speed with random source MAC address and broadcast destination address,
additionally pad the frame to 1000 bytes:
mausezahn eth0 -c 0 -a rand -b bcast -p 1000 "08 00 aa bb cc dd"
The direct link access supports automatic padding using the -p <total frame length>
option. This allows you to pad a raw L2 frame to the desired length. You must specify the
total length, and the total frame length must have at least 15 bytes for technical
reasons. Zero bytes are used for padding.
`-- ARP:
mausezahn provides a simple interface to the ARP packet. You can specify the ARP method
(request|reply) and up to four arguments: sendermac, targetmac, senderip, targetip, or
short smac, tmac, sip, tip. By default, an ARP reply is sent with your own interface
addresses as source MAC and IP address, and a broadcast destination MAC and IP address.
Send a gratuitous ARP request (as used for duplicate IP address detection):
mausezahn eth0 -t arp
ARP cache poisoning:
mausezahn eth0 -t arp "reply, senderip=192.168.0.1, targetmac=00:00:0c:01:02:03, \
targetip=172.16.1.50"
where by default your interface MAC address will be used as sendermac, senderip denotes
the spoofed IP address, targetmac and targetip identifies the receiver. By default, the
Ethernet source address is your interface MAC and the destination address is the broadcast
address. You can change this using the flags -a and -b.
`-- BPDU:
mausezahn provides a simple interface to the 802.1D BPDU frame format (used to create the
Spanning Tree in bridged networks). By default, standard IEEE 802.1D BPDUs are sent and it
is assumed that your computer wants to become the root bridge (rid=bid). Optionally the
802.3 destination address can be a specified MAC address, broadcast, own MAC, or Cisco's
PVST+ MAC address. The destination MAC can be specified using the -b command which,
besides MAC addresses, accepts keywords such as bcast, own, pvst, or stp (default). PVST+
is supported as well. Simply specify the VLAN for which you want to send a BPDU:
mausezahn eth0 -t bpdu "vlan=123, rid=2000"
See mausezahn -t bpdu help for more details.
`-- CDP:
mausezahn can send Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) messages since this protocol has
security relevance. Of course lots of dirty tricks are possible; for example arbitrary
TLVs can be created (using the hex-payload argument for example p=00:0e:00:07:01:01:90)
and if you want to stress the CDP database of some device, mausezahn can send each CDP
message with another system-id using the change keyword:
mausezahn -t cdp change -c 0
Some routers and switches may run into deep problems ;-) See mausezahn -t cdp help for
more details.
`-- 802.1Q VLAN Tags:
mausezahn allows simple VLAN tagging for IP (and other higher layer) packets. Simply use
the option -Q <[CoS:]VLAN>, such as -Q 10 or -Q 3:921. By default CoS=0. For example send
a TCP packet in VLAN 500 using CoS=7:
mausezahn eth0 -t tcp -Q 7:500 "dp=80, flags=rst, p=aa:aa:aa"
You can create as many VLAN tags as you want! This is interesting to create QinQ
encapsulations or VLAN hopping: Send a UDP packet with VLAN tags 100 (outer) and 651
(inner):
mausezahn eth0 -t udp "dp=8888, sp=13442" -P "Mausezahn is great" -Q 100,651
Don't know if this is useful anywhere but at least it is possible:
mausezahn eth0 -t udp "dp=8888, sp=13442" -P "Mausezahn is great" \
-Q 6:5,7:732,5:331,5,6
Mix it with MPLS:
mausezahn eth0 -t udp "dp=8888, sp=13442" -P "Mausezahn is great" -Q 100,651 -M 314
When in raw Layer 2 mode you must create the VLAN tag completely by yourself. For example
if you want to send a frame in VLAN 5 using CoS 0 simply specify 81:00 as type field and
for the next two bytes the CoS (PCP), DEI (CFI), and VLAN ID values (all together known as
TCI):
mausezahn eth0 -b bc -a rand "81:00 00:05 08:00 aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa"
`-- MPLS labels:
mausezahn allows you to insert one or more MPLS headers. Simply use the option -M
<label:CoS:TTL:BoS> where only the label is mandatory. If you specify a second number it
is interpreted as the experimental bits (the CoS usually). If you specify a third number
it is interpreted as TTL. By default the TTL is set to 255. The Bottom of Stack flag is
set automatically, otherwise the frame would be invalid, but if you want you can also set
or unset it using the S (set) and s (unset) argument. Note that the BoS must be the last
argument in each MPLS header definition. Here are some examples:
Use MPLS label 214:
mausezahn eth0 -M 214 -t tcp "dp=80" -P "HTTP..." -B myhost.com
Use three labels (the 214 is now the outer):
mausezahn eth0 -M 9999,51,214 -t tcp "dp=80" -P "HTTP..." -B myhost.com
Use two labels, one with CoS=5 and TTL=1, the other with CoS=7:
mausezahn eth0 -M 100:5:1,500:7 -t tcp "dp=80" -P "HTTP..." -B myhost.com
Unset the BoS flag (which will result in an invalid frame):
mausezahn eth0 -M 214:s -t tcp "dp=80" -P "HTTP..." -B myhost.com
Layer 3-7:
IP, UDP, and TCP packets can be padded using the -p option. Currently 0x42 is used as
padding byte ('the answer'). You cannot pad DNS packets (would be useless anyway).
`-- IP:
mausezahn allows you to send any malformed or correct IP packet. Every field in the IP
header can be manipulated. The IP addresses can be specified via the -A and -B options,
denoting the source and destination address, respectively. You can also specify an address
range or a host name (FQDN). Additionally, the source address can also be random. By
default the source address is your interface IP address and the destination address is a
broadcast address. Here are some examples:
ASCII payload:
mausezahn eth0 -t ip -A rand -B 192.168.1.0/24 -P "hello world"
Hexadecimal payload:
mausezahn eth0 -t ip -A 10.1.0.1-10.1.255.254 -B 255.255.255.255 p=ca:fe:ba:be
Will use correct source IP address:
mausezahn eth0 -t ip -B www.xyz.com
The Type of Service (ToS) byte can either be specified directly by two hexadecimal digits,
which means you can also easily set the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) bits (LSB 1
and 2), or you may only want to specify a common DSCP value (bits 3-8) using a decimal
number (0..63):
Packet sent with DSCP = Expedited Forwarding (EF):
mausezahn eth0 -t ip dscp=46,ttl=1,proto=1,p=08:00:5a:a2:de:ad:be:af
If you leave the checksum as zero (or unspecified) the correct checksum will be
automatically computed. Note that you can only use a wrong checksum when you also specify
at least one L2 field manually.
`-- UDP:
mausezahn supports easy UDP datagram generation. Simply specify the destination address
(-B option) and optionally an arbitrary source address (-A option) and as arguments you
may specify the port numbers using the dp (destination port) and sp (source port)
arguments and a payload. You can also easily specify a whole port range which will result
in sending multiple packets. Here are some examples:
Send test packets to the RTP port range:
mausezahn eth0 -B 192.168.1.1 -t udp "dp=16384-32767, \
p=A1:00:CC:00:00:AB:CD:EE:EE:DD:DD:00"
Send a DNS request as local broadcast (often a local router replies):
mausezahn eth0 -t udp dp=53,p=c5-2f-01-00-00-01-00-00-00-00-00-00-03-77-77-\
77-03-78-79-7a-03-63-6f-6d-00-00-01-00-01"
Additionally you may specify the length and checksum using the len and sum arguments (will
be set correctly by default). Note: several protocols have same arguments such as len
(length) and sum (checksum). If you specified a UDP type packet (via -t udp) and want to
modify the IP length, then use the alternate keyword iplen and ipsum. Also note that you
must specify at least one L2 field which tells mausezahn to build everything without the
help of your kernel (the kernel would not allow modifying the IP checksum and the IP
length).
`-- ICMP:
mausezahn currently only supports the following ICMP methods: PING (echo request),
Redirect (various types), Unreachable (various types). Additional ICMP types will be
supported in future. Currently you would need to tailor them by yourself, e.g. using the
IP packet builder (setting proto=1). Use the mausezahn -t icmp help for help on currently
implemented options.
`-- TCP:
mausezahn allows you to easily tailor any TCP packet. Similarly as with UDP you can
specify source and destination port (ranges) using the sp and dp arguments. Then you can
directly specify the desired flags using an "|" as delimiter if you want to specify
multiple flags. For example, a SYN-Flood attack against host 1.1.1.1 using a random source
IP address and periodically using all 1023 well-known ports could be created via:
mausezahn eth0 -A rand -B 1.1.1.1 -c 0 -t tcp "dp=1-1023, flags=syn" \
-P "Good morning! This is a SYN Flood Attack. \
We apologize for any inconvenience."
Be careful with such SYN floods and only use them for firewall testing. Check your legal
position! Remember that a host with an open TCP session only accepts packets with correct
socket information (addresses and ports) and a valid TCP sequence number (SQNR). If you
want to try a DoS attack by sending a RST-flood and you do NOT know the target's initial
SQNR (which is normally the case) then you may want to sweep through a range of sequence
numbers:
mausezahn eth0 -A legal.host.com -B target.host.com \
-t tcp "sp=80,dp=80,s=1-4294967295"
Fortunately, the SQNR must match the target host's acknowledgement number plus the
announced window size. Since the typical window size is something between 40000 and 65535
you are MUCH quicker when using an increment via the ds argument:
mausezahn eth0 -A legal.host.com -B target.host.com \
-t tcp "sp=80, dp=80, s=1-4294967295, ds=40000"
In the latter case mausezahn will only send 107375 packets instead of 4294967295 (which
results in a duration of approximately 1 second compared to 11 hours!). Of course you can
tailor any TCP packet you like. As with other L4 protocols mausezahn builds a correct IP
header but you can additionally access every field in the IP packet (also in the Ethernet
frame).
`-- DNS:
mausezahn supports UDP-based DNS requests or responses. Typically you may want to send a
query or an answer. As usual, you can modify every flag in the header. Here is an example
of a simple query:
mausezahn eth0 -B mydns-server.com -t dns "q=www.ibm.com"
You can also create server-type messages:
mausezahn eth0 -A spoofed.dns-server.com -B target.host.com \
"q=www.topsecret.com, a=172.16.1.1"
The syntax according to the online help (-t dns help) is:
query|q = <name>[:<type>] ............. where type is per default "A"
(and class is always "IN")
answer|a = [<type>:<ttl>:]<rdata> ...... ttl is per default 0.
= [<type>:<ttl>:]<rdata>/[<type>:<ttl>:]<rdata>/...
Note: If you only use the 'query' option then a query is sent. If you additionally add an
'answer' then an answer is sent. Examples:
q = www.xyz.com
q = www.xyz.com, a=192.168.1.10
q = www.xyz.com, a=A:3600:192.168.1.10
q = www.xyz.com, a=CNAME:3600:abc.com/A:3600:192.168.1.10
Please try out mausezahn -t dns help to see the many other optional command line options.
`-- RTP and VoIP path measurements:
mausezahn can send arbitrary Real Time Protocol (RTP) packets. By default a classical
G.711 codec packet of 20 ms segment size and 160 bytes is assumed. You can measure jitter,
packet loss, and reordering along a path between two hosts running mausezahn. The jitter
measurement is either done following the variance low-pass filtered estimation specified
in RFC 3550 or using an alternative "real-time" method which is even more precise (the
RFC-method is used by default). For example on Host1 you start a transmission process:
mausezahn -t rtp -B 192.168.1.19
And on Host2 (192.168.1.19) a receiving process which performs the measurement:
mausezahn -T rtp
Note that the option flag with the capital "T" means that it is a server RTP process,
waiting for incoming RTP packets from any mausezahn source. In case you want to restrict
the measurement to a specific source or you want to perform a bidirectional measurement,
you must specify a stream identifier. Here is an example for bidirectional measurements
which logs the running jitter average in a file:
Host1# mausezahn -t rtp id=11:11:11:11 -B 192.168.2.2 &
Host1# mausezahn -T rtp id=22:22:22:22 "log, path=/tmp/mz/"
Host2# mausezahn -t rtp id=22:22:22:22 -B 192.168.1.1 &
Host2# mausezahn -T rtp id=11:11:11:11 "log, path=/tmp/mz/"
In any case the measurements are printed continuously onto the screen; by default it looks
like this:
0.00 0.19 0.38 0.57
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
######### 0.07 msec
#################### 0.14 msec
## 0.02 msec
### 0.02 msec
######### 0.07 msec
#### 0.03 msec
######### 0.07 msec
############# 0.10 msec
## 0.02 msec
########################################### 0.31 msec
######### 0.07 msec
############################################## 0.33 msec
############### 0.11 msec
########## 0.07 msec
############### 0.11 msec
########################################################## 0.42 msec
##### 0.04 msec
More information is shown using the txt keyword:
mausezahn -T rtp txt
Got 100 packets from host 192.168.0.3: 0 lost (0 absolute lost), 1 out of order
Jitter_RFC (low pass filtered) = 30 usec
Samples jitter (min/avg/max) = 1/186/2527 usec
Delta-RX (min/avg/max) = 2010/20167/24805 usec
Got 100 packets from host 192.168.0.3: 0 lost (0 absolute lost), 1 out of order
Jitter_RFC (low pass filtered) = 17 usec
Samples jitter (min/avg/max) = 1/53/192 usec
Delta-RX (min/avg/max) = 20001/20376/20574 usec
Got 100 packets from host 192.168.0.3: 0 lost (0 absolute lost), 1 out of order
Jitter_RFC (low pass filtered) = 120 usec
Samples jitter (min/avg/max) = 0/91/1683 usec
Delta-RX (min/avg/max) = 18673/20378/24822 usec
See mausezahn -t rtp help and mz -T rtp help for more details.
`-- Syslog:
The traditional Syslog protocol is widely used even in professional networks and is
sometimes vulnerable. For example you might insert forged Syslog messages by spoofing your
source address (e.g. impersonate the address of a legit network device):
mausezahn -t syslog sev=3 -P "You have been mausezahned." -A 10.1.1.109 -B 192.168.7.7
See mausezahn -t syslog help for more details.
NOTE
When multiple ranges are specified, e.g. destination port ranges and destination address
ranges, then all possible combinations of ports and addresses are used for packet
generation. Furthermore, this can be mixed with other ranges e.g. a TCP sequence number
range. Note that combining ranges can lead to a very huge number of frames to be sent. As
a rule of thumb you can assume that about 100,000 frames and more are sent in a fraction
of one second, depending on your network interface.
mausezahn has been designed as a fast traffic generator so you might easily overwhelm a
LAN segment with myriads of packets. And because mausezahn could also support security
audits it is possible to create malicious or invalid packets, SYN floods, port and address
sweeps, DNS and ARP poisoning, etc.
Therefore, don't use this tool when you are not aware of the possible consequences or have
only a little knowledge about networks and data communication. If you abuse mausezahn for
'unallowed' attacks and get caught, or damage something of your own, then this is
completely your fault. So the safest solution is to try it out in a lab environment.
Also have a look at the netsniff-ng(8) note section on how you can properly setup and tune
your system.
LEGAL
mausezahn is licensed under the GNU GPL version 2.0.
HISTORY
mausezahn was originally written by Herbert Haas. According to his website [1], he
unfortunately passed away in 2011 thus leaving this tool unmaintained. It has been
adopted and integrated into the netsniff-ng toolkit and is further being maintained and
developed from there. Maintainers are Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> and Daniel
Borkmann <dborkma@tik.ee.ethz.ch>.
[1] http://www.perihel.at/
SEE ALSO
netsniff-ng(8), trafgen(8), ifpps(8), bpfc(8), flowtop(8), astraceroute(8), curvetun(8)
AUTHOR
Manpage was written by Herbert Haas and modified by Daniel Borkmann.
COLOPHON
This page is part of the Linux netsniff-ng toolkit project. A description of the project,
and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://netsniff-ng.org/.