Advanced Stateful pcap Replay with Aticara

Aticara
Advanced Stateful pcap Replay with Aticara over
WiFi Interface
Application Note

OVERVIEW
Traffic replay is a traditional and effective technique used to emulate real word traffic.
Since the recorded traffic used for replay has various protocols, packet sizes, Inter
Frame Gap (IFG), Inter Burst Gap (IBG). Recorded traffic has been used for ages to
reproduce customer issues in the lab.

There are a lot of open source replay tools available e.g. Tcpreplay, tcpliveplay, Trex
and tons of very expensive FPGA based commercial tools.

But still QA Engineers and Network Engineers find it a nightmare to replay voluminous
network capture they receive from their customers to replicate crash or bug in the lab.

Following are the challenges faced by QA and Network Engineers with Open source
Traffic Replay Tools

Desired Feature Opensource Support

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Ability to play large size pcap (> 10 GB) Aticara X
Ability to Replay pcap’s with several X
thousand unique network flows
Stateful Replay X Bi-Directional X
Ability to pin point packet which causes X
crash
Ability to Identify direction of flow triggering X
failure/crash
Ability to modify the mac address X
Ability to modify IP address X
Ability to modify TCP/UDP port numbers X
Ability to Modify L7 Payload X
Set Packets per second or Line Rate X
Adjust Round Trip Time (RTT) X
Ability to Re-transmit lost packets X
Replay several thousand pcaps in parallel X
Replay against NAT X
Replay against Proxy X
Wifi Replay Support X
Amplify Single flow to Millions of unique X
flows

Aticara pcap Blaster Overview

Aticara pcap Blaster is a completely virtualized and software based replay tool that can
run on any commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware. Aticara pcap Blaster has
designed by QA and Network Engineers who had a hard time replaying large pcap’s,
which are regularly received from the field to reproduce customer’s issues in the lab.

Why Aticara?
We are completely software based which can be installed on popular hypervisors on
commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware. It can replay large size pcap with thousands
of flows, empowering QA engineers to replicate customer issues in the lab quickly.

Aticara can also be used for amplifying a single flow into millions of flows to load test of
the DUT.

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Aticara

Salient Features
Stateful pcap Replay
Ability to load and replay upto 30,000 pcap’s
Ability to replay large pcap ( >=10 GB)*
Ability to amplify single flows in to millions of flows for load testing
Completely software based application
Runs on Commercial Off The Shelf hardware (COTS)
Supports commercial hypervisors – ESX, KVM, Openstack
Supports VMware Workstation, Oracle VirtualBox
NAT support
Proxy support
Ability to modify or specify range of MAC address, IP address
VLAN, QinQ support
L7 payload updates for HTTP, CIFS, NFS, SMB, FTP etc.
Line Rate Replay – supports 10,25,40,50, 100 Gbps
Identifies and pin points the packet causing crash
Identifies the flow direction (East to West/West to East) causing failures or crash
Ability to create user pcap library of up to 30,000 pcaps
Sequential or parallel pcap replay ability
Generates millions of packets per second
Easy to use and Intuitive Web Based User Interface
Encapsulate payload from pcap with overlay technologies like VXLAN, NVGRE,
OpenFlow* etc.
Ability to replay packets over the air (Wi-Fi Support)
Automation Support – TCL, Python, Perl

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* On Roadmap Aticara

Features Interface Support

Network Standard IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

Data Rates 802.11 b/g/n/ac Downlink and Uplink of

1300Mbps (20/40/40 Mhz) 801.11
a/b/g/n/ac Downlink and Uplink of 150
Mbps (20/40 Mhz)

Antenna 3 X R SMA Antenna

Operating Frequency 2.4 GHz/5GHz

Modulation 64QAM, 16QAM, CCK, DQPSK, DBPSK,

OFDM
Output Power ac mode: 18 ~22 dBm
b mode: 22 dBm
g mode: 19 ~22 dBm
n mode : 18 ~22 dBm

Security 64-bit WEP, 128-bit WEP, WPA2-PSK,

WPA-PSK, WPA-Enterprise , WPA2-
Enterprise

CONTACT US:

demo@aticara.com

sales@aticara.com

www.aticara.com
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