How To Install ostinato on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ostinato on Ubuntu.

What is `ostinato`

ostinato is:

Ostinato is an open-source, cross-platform network packet crafter/traffic generator and analyzer with a friendly GUI. Craft and send packets of several streams with different protocols at different rates. Ostinato aims to be “Wireshark in Reverse” and become complementary to Wireshark.

Features:

Open, edit, replay and save PCAP files
Support for the most common standard protocols
- Ethernet/802.3/LLC SNAP
- VLAN (with QinQ)
- ARP, IPv4, IPv6, IP-in-IP IP Tunnelling (6over4, 4over6, 4over4, 6over6)
- TCP, UDP, ICMPv4, ICMPv6, IGMP, MLD
- Any text based protocol (HTTP, SIP, RTSP, NNTP etc.)
Modify any field of any protocol (some protocols allow changing packet fields with every packet at run time e.g. changing IP/MAC addresses)
User provided Hex Dump - specify some or all bytes in a packet
User defined script to substitute for an unimplemented protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)
Stack protocols in any arbitrary order
Create and configure multiple streams
Configure stream rates, bursts, no. of packets
Single client can control and configure multiple ports on multiple computers generating traffic
Exclusive control of a port to prevent the OS from sending stray packets provides a controlled testing environment
Statistics Window shows real time port receive/transmit statistics and rates
Capture packets and view them (needs Wireshark)
Framework to add new protocol builders easily

There are three methods to install ostinato on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ostinato Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ostinato using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ostinato

Install ostinato Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ostinato using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ostinato

Install ostinato 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 ostinato using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ostinato

How To Uninstall ostinato on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the ostinato package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ostinato

Uninstall ostinato And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ostinato and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ostinato

Remove ostinato Configurations and Data

To remove ostinato configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ostinato

Remove ostinato configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ostinato configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ostinato

Dependencies

ostinato have the following dependencies:

References

ostinato website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ostinato package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.