Stresstesting Windows

In Kali 1.x stress testing was an open topic, but in Kali 2.0 stress testing has been driven off the main menu. Two of the tools from Kali 1.x are gone, DHCPig, and inumdator, but there should be no problem finding a good set of tools in the 2.0 toolbox, nonetheless.

Dealing with Denial

ATK6-Denial6 is an IPv6 network stress-tester that sends packets to a target host and beats it into submission. The first illustration is the help file for ATK6-Denial6.

The next illustration is the nmap -a reading for the vulnerable Windows 7 target machine. We want to find out if it has ports open, and which ports they are. We can see that ports 139, 445, 2869, 5357, and 10243 are open. The big problem with this tool is that the test network is IPv4.

Let's find a tool with which we can attack our IPv4 network.

Putting the network under Siege

Siege is a web stress-tester. This is a multithreaded HTTP load testing and benchmarking utility that can show how a web application responds...