Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] looking for randpkt executable

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:24:27 +0100
Barhoumi, Mohieddine (GE Healthcare) wrote:

hi,
with regards to testing ethereal, the webpage http://wiki.ethereal.com/FuzzTesting gives an outline and a set of tools used for that purpose that I would like to try out.

That's a very good idea.

I am hoping that I do not have to compile the given source code for randpkt.
My questions are as follows:
1) where can I get the executable randpkt from? (or is the only way is to download the complete source code from http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/buildbot-builds/source/ and compile it?)

The binary version of randpkt is not part of the 0.10.13 release, but will be included in the next release.

You didn't mention which os you are running on. If you use Win32, you can try one of the current setups from: http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/buildbot-builds/win32/ (which contains several installers from the current developer builds). If you use a unix-like OS, I don't know the details.

2) what are these files under http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/buildbot-builds/randpkt/ ? (I was expecting to see the builds for randpkt here)

The automated testing process uses randpkt to generate random files. If it detected a problem it will put the file in this dir, file a bug in bugzilla and link it to this file (Gerald may correct me if I say something wrong).

Regards, ULFL