About PacketCast
PacketCast is a script for preforming UDP denial of
service activities. This software aims to be OS independent, thus is
coded in Perl. As well I want this program to be easy to use. It
employs a simple, structured progressive menu system that expands and
collects information if needed before running the stress test.
PacketCast also is multi-thread enabled, allowing more system resources
to be used during a test. This effect is best demonstrated on systems
with multiple cores or CPU's.
Originally PacketCast started as a Visual .NET
project called "Free Agent". I quickly adapted my UDP Flood Engine (Chase Technologies UFE) to run
under Linux as it is my OS of choice. PacketCast Ver. 1 was born.
Anything after version 1 was designed to be OS independent, and the
first public copy was made available from version 4 forward on February
17, 2011.
Note: Free Agent
was developed to disrupt IAX & CitriX transactions at a call center
that shall remain nameless... I was highly motivated and successful
(evil laugh here).
About Dev
I reside in Atlantic Canada and am currently
in on going studies at Eastern College in the Information Technology
field. I enjoy programming on the side as a hobby. My first programming
language learned was Microsoft Quick Basic when I was young, from there
I
took it upon myself to learn new languages and self education on
computer programming. As far as my development labs go I have 2 systems
in my fleet dedicated to the job. Primarily I develop in Fedora Core
14. If you want to know more you can find me on Face Book... http://www.facebook.com/chrchase.
Getting PacketCast
The latest builds can always be found on SourceForge
HERE.
Help
The downloads do include operating
instructions, change log and other goodies to assist end users. Also
there are forums on SourceForge @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/packetcast/forums.
Screen
shots
can
be
found
here...
Windows
users
should
be
advised
that
Active
Perl
is
needed to run
PacketCast as the MSWin32 environment does not have a Perl Compiler.
Active Perl can be found here. Although Active
Perl is offered in 2 formats the Free Community version is all you need.
Developers like me need your help too though! If you
have bug reports, ideas or comments feel free to make them known... it
only helps makes PacketCast stronger. Secondly I always accept Secure
PayPal Donations as well. Click
Here.
