ENHANCED SYSTEM OF TEST PACKET GENERATION WITH PACKET FILTERING

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1 ENHANCED SYSTEM OF TEST PACKET GENERATION WITH PACKET FILTERING KARANAM UNMEELYA UG Scholar, Sreenivasa Institute of Technology of Management Studies,Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India ABSTRACT--This paper is an attempt to enhance the Automatic Test Packet Generation system. Packet Filtering plays the exacting roles in networking. In networking the network devices which combine with IPsec gateway, firewalls Diffserv and QoS routers to perform packet filtering. In this paper we gives the new packet filtering inflation mode that uses flexible demographic exploration trees to promote extensive traffic component and diminish the moderate packet comparable extent. Test Packet Generation with Packet Filtering which discusses the network devices which observe with packet to active the web link through test packets. In packet filtering the data traffic may occur when data transfer though routers. In the packet class the router could not specify to develop the packet rejection, which is vital for many filtering devices. Keywords: Packet, Filtering, Network, IP I INTRODUCTION: It is notably hard to debug networks. Every day, network engineers wrestle with router misconfigurations, fiber cuts, faulty interfaces, mislabeled cables, software bugs, intermittent links, and a myriad other reasons that cause networks to misbehave or fail completely. Network engineers hunt down bugs using the most rudimentary tools (e.g., SNMP, and) and track down root causes using a combination of accrued wisdom and intuition. Debugging networks is only becoming harder as networks are getting bigger [1]. The communication concluded which data are carried generally carry data in units referred to as packets which are intended for many different sources. Addressing and packet typing are included in most standardized and proprietary packet basednetworking protocols which make use of destination address fields at the beginning within each data packet for the purpose of distinguishing proper recipients of the data of the packets. As a packet is received at central and final components in a system, active determination of the proper recipient for the data must be made in order to efficiently accept, forward, or discard the data packet. Such determinations are made based upon the above discussed address, packet type and other fields within the relevant packets. These determinations can be made by network controller hardware alone, by a combination of hardware and software, or by software alone. In broadcast type networks, every node is responsible for examining every packet and accepting those of interest, while rejecting all others. This is called packet filtering. Accuracy, speed and economy of the filtering mechanism are all of importance. 140

2 Fig 1: Automatic Test Packet Generation Block Diagram When the above contend determinations are made through a combination of hardware and software, the hardware is said to have accomplished a partial filtering of the incoming packet stream. It should be noted that one type of packet filtering is accomplished on the basis of packet error characteristics such as collision fragments known as runts", frame check sequence errors, and the like. The type of filtering relevant to the present discussion is based upon packet filtering in which filtering criteria can be expressed as simple Boolean functions of data fields within the packet as opposed to filtering based upon detection of errors or improperly formed packets. Fig 2: Generate packets to test drop rules In the simplest case, each node of a computer network must capture those packets whose destination address field matches the node s unique address. However there frequently occur situations in which additional packets are also of interest. One example occurs when the node belongs to a predefined set of nodes all of which simultaneously receive certain specific group cast packets which are addressed to that group. Group cast packets are usually identified by some variation of the address field of the packet. Group cast address types generally fall into one of two forms. Broadcast addresses are intended for all nodes and multicast addresses are targeted for specific applications to which subsets of nodes are registered. Another case of such field based packet filtering occurs when certain network management nodes are adapted to focus on specific protocols, inter-node transactions, or the like, to the exclusion of all other traffic. II NETWORK MODEL: The network model is an index realize as a extensible path of describing object and their association. In the packet filtering first the packet is generated then filters using ATGP - Automatic Test Packet Generation. The packets can be released using 141

3 inbound filters on a given interface, this simplifies the filtering specifications. modified. The rule abstraction models all real-world rules we know including IP forwarding (modifies port, checksum, and TTL, but not IP address); VLAN tagging (adds VLAN IDs to the header); and ACLs (block a header, or map to a queue). Essentially, a rule defines how a region of header space at the ingress (the set of packets matching the rule) is transformed into regions of header space at the egress [2]. d) Rule History: At any point, each packet has a rule history: an ordered list of rules [r 0, r 1,] the packet matched so far as it traversed the network. Rule histories are fundamental to ATPG, as they provide the basic raw material from which ATPG constructs tests [1]. III LIFE OF A TEST PACKET a) Packets: Fig 3: Network Packet Generation A network packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-switched network. Computer communications links that do not support packets, such as traditional point-to-point telecommunications links, simply transmit data as a bit stream. When data is formatted into packets, the bandwidth of the communication medium can be better shared among users than if the network were circuit switched. b) Switches: A network switch is a computer networking device that connects devices together on a computer network, by using packet switching to receive, process and forward data to the destination device. Unlike less advanced network hubs, a network switch forwards data only to one or multiple devices that need to receive it, rather than broadcasting the same data out of each of its ports [3]. The life of a test packet can be viewed as applying the switch and topology transfer functions repeatedly shown in below figure. When a packet pk arrives at a network port, the switch function that contains the input port pk.p is applied to pk, producing a list of new packets [pk1,pk2,...]. If the packet reaches its destination, it is recorded. Otherwise, the topology function is used to invoke the switch function containing the new port. The process repeats until packets reach their destinations (or are dropped) [1]. The General alternatives to pocket filtering for network security may contain securing each node with network access using the functional gateway. Accessing the network on simple method to filter the packet for addressing to secure each node that has network access commonly impractical. In some other sites have to relocate the packet filtering for resources to secure and then watch the each node that need network access c) Rules: A rule generates a list of one or more output packets, corresponding to the output port(s) to which the packet is sent, and defines how packet fields are 142

4 Packet Techniques: Packet technique is a technique that allows network administrators or hackers to probe firewall rule-sets and find entry points into a targeted system or network. This is done by manually generating packets to test network devices and behavior, instead of using existing network traffic [4]. Testing may target the firewall, IDS, TCP/IP stack, router or any other component of the network. Packets are usually created by using a packet generator or packet analyzer which allows for specific options and flags to be set on the created packets. The act of packet crafting can be broken into four stages: Packet Assembly, Packet Editing, Packet Play and Packet Decoding. Tools exist for each of the stages - some tools are focused only on one stage while others such as to encompass all stages. Fig 4: Testing in Emulated Network. Packet Decoding is the capture and analysis of the network traffic generated during Packet Play. In order to determine the targeted network's response to the scenario created by Packet Play, the response must be captured by a packet analyzer and decoded according to the appropriate specifications. Depending on the packets sent, a desired response may be no packets were returned or that a connection was successfully established, among others. Fig 5: Static versus dynamic checking IV A PACKET FILTERING EXAMPLE Life of a Packet For example, we examine this outline. The network administrator of a company with class B network IP such as which to not access from the internet to his network in a general with subnet /16. The administrator has special subnet in his network /24 this is used in a collaborative project with a local university which has class B network ; he wishes to permit access to special subnet /24 from all subnets of the university /16. Finally he wishes to deny access except to the subnet that is open to the whole university from the specific subnet /24 at the university because the subnet is known to be insecure and a haven for crackers. Rule C is the default rule which specifies what happens if none of the other rules apply. 143

5 Rule Source Address Destination Address Action A / /24 Permit B / /16 Deny C / /0 Deny V IMPLEMENTATION We have simulated our system in JAVA. We implemented and tested with a system configuration on Intel Dual Core processor, Windows XP and using Eclipse IDE. We have used four modules in our implementation part. The details of each module for this system are as follows Consider the sample packets their desired treatment under the policy outlined above and their treatment depending on whether the rules above are applied in order "ABC" or "BAC" P a c k et Source Address Destination Address Desi red Acti on ABC Acti on BAC Acti on Fig 6: ATPG Tool Deny Deny (B) Permit Per mit (A) Permit Per mit (A) Deny Deny (C) Deny (B) Deny (B) Per mit (A) Deny (C) A router that applies the rules in the order ABC will achieve the desired results, packets from the hackers haven subnet at the university to the company network in general such as packet 1 above will be denied (by rule B), packets from the university hacker haven subnet at the university to the company s collaboration subnet (such as packet 2 above) will be permitted (by rule A), packets from the university general network to the company open subnet (such as packet 3) above will be permitted (by rule A). Fig 7: Router Module 144

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