The Low Orbit Ion Cannon in Qt4
LOIQ stands for Low Orbit Ion Cannon in Qt. It is an attempt to port the famous public-domain server stress-testing tool from C#/.Net to C++/Qt4, thus making it available for the vast community of GNU/Linux users, as well as for the rest of us *NIXoids
LOIQ is a software that can create a large number of inbound requests to test the ability of a server to withstand high load levels. Its primary use is checking the webserver's fitness for serving a huge number of clients, although other uses are feasible, wherever tolerance to high load is to be achieved. Currently, it looks like all the features of the original software have been implemented, although there are sound reasons to believe that the implementation is way far from the optimal or even correct one. It also should be noted that the project was undertaken mostly as an interesting case for practical learning of Qt4 framework and C++ programming, therefore errors and failures are likely
to occur.
LOIQ performs a denial-of-service (DoS) attack (or when used by multiple individuals, a DDoS attack) on a target site by flooding the server with TCP packets, UDP packets, or HTTP requests with the intention of disrupting the service of a particular host.
This optionally requires icoutils for icon generation during the build process.
The software is released under GNU GPL licence of version 3 or later, see file COPYING for the full text thereof.The developers have no responsibility whatsoever should the software in question be used for a malicious purpose.
A pre-compiled binary is included in the archive, which was compiled under Debian Lenny 32 bit. If it doesn't work for you, re-compile the software by
typing 'make'. Naturally, you should have a system capable of compiling Qt4 apps.
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Homepage:http://loiq.sourceforge.net/
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