Linux tool to send raw data to a TCP server

linux tcp
paul simmons picture paul simmons · Jun 10, 2010 · Viewed 82.1k times · Source

I am aware that this is not a direct 'development' question but I need this info to test a development project, so I think someone could've hit similar problem.

I will test a software that runs a TCP server and according to sent commands replies some answers. I will test the software and do not want to write code if it doesn't work well. So I want to send those commands and test drive the server software.

How can I achieve this with a Linux box?

Answer

Dummy00001 picture Dummy00001 · Jun 10, 2010

From bash with dd:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=9000 count=1000 > /dev/tcp/$target_host/$port

or even with cat:

cat < /dev/urandom > /dev/tcp/$target_host/$port

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