A Tool for Stateful Replay

The Marine Corps Tactical System Support Agency (MCTSSA) at Marine Corps Base(MCB) Camp Pendleton is currently conducting evaluation of Wide Area Network(WAN) optimization products. MCTSSA has requested a tool that will conductstateful TCP replay on large network trace files.This book lays the groundwork and establishes a framework for thedevelopment of a testing capability for measuring the efficiency of differentWAN optimization products with respect to an excerpt of real-world productionTCP flows. It also creates a software tool that will re-create the exchangeof data between two hosts from a network trace file and maintain the relativeordering of TCP packets and their TCP payload. In addition, the softwareeliminates retransmissions that would not occur with the deployment of WANOptimization gateways.