PyTgen is a Traffic Generator written in Python This program can be used to generate different kinds of network traffic. A configuration file lets you define types of traffic that will be generated periodically in a given timeframe. Supported types of traffic are: ping - Ping times to some location http(s) - Fetch a website ftp(s) - Upload and download a file smtp - Send an email of random size copy - Copy a file or directory to or from a nfs or smb share ssh - Open an ssh connection and issue commands sftp - Transfer files via sftp telnet - Open a telnet connection and issue commands xmpp - Connect via xmpp and send messages reboot - Reboot the local machine Each traffic definition from the config file defines a job, that is then periodically distributed to a number of worker threads by a scheduler. The scheduler will randomize the time between the execution of each job to prevent the traffic from looking too synthetic. On an average, each job will be executed once every interval defined in the configuration file. Please note that this software is highly experimental and was written specifically for the porpose I needed it as a part of my work in a research project, where we needed to generate and collect "normal" network traffic. As we were not interested in packet payloads but only header information, there may be many situations, where the generated traffic will not match the look of actual network traffic. Configuration files have to be placed in the subfolder configs and be named "<hostname>.py" where <hostname> is the hostname of the host, PyTgen is running on. See config.example.py for a more detailled description of the generators as well as configuration examples. If you have setuptools installed, you can install PyTgen using this command: python setup.py install