 
    fastburden - generates a flood of web traffic

  This is a performance testing tool that can generate a test flood of
  client web traffic towards a web server. It reads from the file "sites"
  and will sequentially fetch the URLs in a loop. This can be used 
  to assist in performance tuning of web and web proxy servers.

  Custom URLs can be added to the sites file to refelect realistic traffic
  for your web server, popular sites (eg /index.html) can be repeated in the
  file so that they are tested more often.

  The sites file could be generated by taking the correct field from the
  web server or proxy server log (eg Apache, Squid, ...) - which would
  execute a replay of actual client traffic. This replays the traffic as
  fast as possible (depending on the number of threads) ignoring the time 
  delays between site hits. (see squid2sites.sh and apache2sites.pl, 
  contained in this distribution).

  This is a companion to fastbrute, the mock FTP brute force attack tool.

 USAGE:
	fastburden [-p port] [-t threads] [-f file] [-r rounds]
		   [-d delay ms ]  hostname

  -p destination port, default is 80. Use other ports (eg 3128, 8080) to
     run against other types of servers.

  -t number of threads, default is 8 (max 250). By increasing or decreasing 
     the number of threads the speed of the attack can be controlled.
     Time a few trials with "-r 10" to see the effect.

  -f input file of URLs, default is "sites". 
  
  -r numbers of rounds of the sites file to loop through, default is 65536.

  -d extra ms delay between fetches (use this if the program is running 
     too fast; eg, "-d 100").

 EXAMPLES:
	./fastburden -p 8080 mars	# testing squid
	./fastburden -t 32 mars		# 32 threads 
	time ./fastburden -r 2 mars	# time 2 rounds of the sites list

 INSTALLING:
	make
	make install
  Edit the Makefile if the build fails and use settings appropriate for
  your OS.

 VERSION: 07-Nov-2004, ver 0.61

 WARNING: Please don't use this software for anything illegal. That 
  definition differs for every country, please check the law first.
  This is a performace testing tool - not a Denial of Service 
  or "hacking" tool - a misidentification that could render owning
  this software illegal in some countries.

 COPYRIGHT: Copyright (c) 2003 Brendan Gregg.

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
  as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
  of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details. 

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 
  Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

  (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)

 AUTHOR: Brendan Gregg  [Sydney, Australia].

