How To Install tcpreplay on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpreplay on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tcpreplay
tcpreplay is:
Tcpreplay is aimed at testing the performance of a NIDS by replaying real background network traffic in which to hide attacks. Tcpreplay allows you to control the speed at which the traffic is replayed, and can replay arbitrary tcpdump traces. Unlike programmatically-generated artificial traffic which doesn’t exercise the application/protocol inspection that a NIDS performs, and doesn’t reproduce the real-world anomalies that appear on production networks (asymmetric routes, traffic bursts/lulls, fragmentation, retransmissions, etc.), tcpreplay allows for exact replication of real traffic seen on real networks. It included the following executables tcpprep, tcprewrite, tcpreplay-edit, tcpbridge and pcap based captures are possible.
There are three methods to install tcpreplay on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tcpreplay Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tcpreplay using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tcpreplay
Install tcpreplay Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tcpreplay using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tcpreplay
Install tcpreplay Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install tcpreplay using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tcpreplay
How To Uninstall tcpreplay on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tcpreplay package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tcpreplay
Uninstall tcpreplay And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tcpreplay and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tcpreplay
Remove tcpreplay Configurations and Data
To remove tcpreplay configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tcpreplay
Remove tcpreplay configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tcpreplay configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tcpreplay
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpreplay package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
