Testing tools?

[Martin Jackson]

Bret Schuhmacher wrote:
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> Martin Jackson wrote:
> | If you dig in scapy's documentation, you can find a DHCP client mode:
> | http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/
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> | It depends on what you're looking for, of course.  Are you trying to
> | stress test the server, test it for certain kinds of option support, or
> | what?
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> | Thanks,
> | Marty
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> Thanks, Marty - I'm just looking for something that will make a 
> DHCPREQUEST of the DHCPD so the DHCPD will go through its paces and 
> allocate an IP from the pool.  I've added some extra syslog logging into 
> dhcpd.c and I'm using rsyslog to cause that info to get put into 
> Postgres.  I just need to cause DHCPD to go through the motions and do a 
> DHCPACK and log what it did.
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In that case, either the Perl modules or scapy should be sufficient for 
your needs.

Thanks,
Marty