On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 08:33 -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: > > Forging IP addresses is actually quite simple. VMs do it all the time > when bridged to the real NIC. There are also some projects on Source > Forge designed to load test HTTP servers that do similar things. I have > an application I wrote for testing that can emulate an entire class B > subnet full of computers. All it takes is a little digging around on > Google, a FreeBSD system installed in a VM and a little knowledge of the > local network topology. In my case I have several blocks of addresses > allocated by the local administrator for this test bed. > > Bob McConnell sorry if this explodes your bubble, but you dont need freebsd to do it :)