IWL's Expert Insights on Network Emulation and Protocol Testing
Syntactic, Semantic, Vulnerability Tests in SNMP
SNMP Syntactic, Semantic and Vulnerability Tests play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability and functionality of SNMP agents in network products.
SilverCreek Supports SNMP Agents Using the Datagram Over Transport Layer Security Model (DTLS)
Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) is now more popular than UDP for a variety of applications. The SilverCreek SNMP Test Suite is no longer limited to UDP, so you can use SilverCreek to test your full implementation over your preferred transport protocol…
The Quandary of Event Notification: SNMP Traps
Newcomers to IT network operations are often confounded by the complexity of managing, controlling, monitoring, diagnosing and repairing their networks. As we are all inclined to select the simplest tool, to a networking newcomer, the simplest tool for staying on top of network operations would be an event report …
Taking Exception to the StringBleed Vulnerability
Security researchers claim to have discovered an SNMP flaw that affects several models of Internet-connected devices. Presumably hackers could send random values in specific requests to the SNMP agent in various devices and the authentication mechanism would be bypassed …
Checking for New SNMP Vulnerabilities
Cisco Systems recently announced a patch for a vulnerability in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) functions of some Cisco routers. This vulnerability could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause high CPU usage on an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to an incorrect initialized variable …
SNMP Agent Simulator
IWL provides the SilverCreek SNMP Test Suite, Libraries and APIs for engineers to find and fix bugs in their SNMP agent implementations. Often developers and quality assurance engineers will need to test the SNMP management application to be used with a new SNMP agent. Verifying SNMP-based network management applications requires an SNMP agent simulator …
IWL Quarterly Update: Winter 2016
The new KMAX Network Emulator offers a library of network scenarios, a modern web interface, automated changes to network conditions over time, graphs, charts, and tables, and a highly sophisticated, highly customizable set of standard and advanced impairments …
IWL Quarterly Update: Fall 2015
Our newest client, VT iDirect transforms the way the world gets and stays connected. As a global leader in IP-based satellite communications, VT iDirect provides technology and solutions to enable service providers and partners optimize their networks …
IWL Quarterly Update: Winter 2015
DARPA announced in June 2014, that the DRC Finals would have a different structure than the Trials. In particular, Communications will be further degraded and intermittent forcing the robots to act more autonomously in completing their tasks. After reviewing the capabilities of all IWL’s Maxwell Network emulation products, the Maxwell Pro was chosen for its advanced programmatic capabilities …
IWL Quarterly Update: Spring 2015
On May 12, 2015 IWL’s CEO Chris Wellens presented to the Silicon Valley Automotive Open Source Meetup on the campus of Mentor Graphics to automotive professionals. She covered the testing of ECU and related modules, along with Infotainment and Assisted Driver systems …
IWL Quarterly Update: Spring 2014
New Echo Server for Maxwell Pro TCP Test Environment
Instrument a TCP or UDP stack so that it responds to input streams in minutes, not hours. The new Echo Server provides support for Windows, OS X, Linux, and BSD systems …
IWL Quarterly Update: Fall 2014
Revision 19 of Mini Maxwell and Maxwell G is now in BETA
New packet filters have been added to Mini Maxwell and Maxwell G …