Stress testing tools

Stress testing tools are tools that are used to test the network and network devices against several types of attacks. Let's look at them in more detail:

• Tools for loading the network: These tools simulate heavy traffic that can be due to, for example, DDoS attacks.
• Tools for loading network devices: These tools load network device interfaces and the control management and control planes.
• Tools for loading software elements: These tools simulate heavy loads on software components – firewalls, management systems, and so on.

There are tools for each of these purposes, so let's look at some examples.

Windows tools

There are many open source ping tools for Windows. One popular tool for Windows (and Linux) is Nping, which can be downloaded from https://nmap.org/nping/.

Kali Linux tools

Using Nping in Kali Linux is a part of the operating system. To run it, use the following command:

nping [Probe mode] [Options...