"The Codenomicon tools are amazing. Using them is like being attacked by the most relentless adversary who uses every possible method to find flaws in your code
We fixed subtle crash bugs in Samba that had been in the code for over ten years. We would never have found those bugs without the Codenomicon tools.
If you're serious about implementing protocols correctly, you need the Codenomicon tools."
-- Jeremy Allison,
Co Creator of Samba
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Codenomicon OSPF Test Tool Data Sheet
- Test tool: Codenomicon OSPF Test Tool
- Direction: Server
- Tagline: Ensuring Routing Security for Modern Networks
Codenomicon OSPF Test Tool helps developers search and eliminate security-related flaws in OSPF implementations proactively and cost-effectively. To guarantee the error-free and continuous operation of modern communications networks, the reliability and dependability of OSPF implementations must be verified thoroughly. Codenomicon OSPF Test Tool has been designed to discover and help eradicate security-related flaws in OSPF implementations.
OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) is a routing protocol used widely in the Internet. Routing protocols often constitute a weak point for the network communications of any organization. If routing service is disrupted, all higher-level protocols grind to a halt. For this reason, security flaws in OSPF implementations can have extremely wide-ranging effects for network connectivity both inside and outside a particular organization.
Used specifications
| Specification | Title |
|---|---|
| RFC1584 | Multicast Extensions to OSPF |
| RFC2328 | OSPF Version 2 |
| RFC2370 | The OSPF Opaque LSA Option |
| RFC3101 | The OSPF Not-So-Stubby Area (NSSA) Option |
| RFC3630 | Traffic Engineering (TE) Extensions to OSPF Version 2 |
| draft-nguyen | OSPF Link-Local Signaling |
Test tool general features
- Fully automated black-box negative testing
- Ready-made test cases
- Written in Java(tm)
- GUI, command line, remote interface modes
- Instrumentation (health-check) capability
- Support and maintenance
- Comprehensive user documentation
- Results reporting and analysis
Tool-specific information
| Tested messages | Notes | Specifications |
|---|---|---|
| Hello | RFC2328 | |
| Database Description | RFC2328 | |
| Link State Request | RFC2328 | |
| Link State Update | RFC2328 | |
| Link State Acknowledgment | RFC2328 | Tested OSPFv2 LSAs | Notes | Specifications |
| Router-LSAs | RFC2328 | |
| Network-LSAs | RFC2328 | |
| Summary-LSAs (IP) | RFC2328 | |
| Summary-LSAs (ASBR) | RFC2328 | |
| AS-external-LSAs | RFC2328 | |
| Group-Membership LSAs | RFC1584 | |
| Traffic Engineering LSA | RFC3630 |
List of available test suites. Please note that the information in these sheets is subject to periodical change.
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