Triggering SYN Flood and background stress traffic for NIDS test

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In respect to triggering SYN Flood, Metasploit Framework directly supports.

In response to achieving tons of stress traffic in order to evaluate the performance of the tested NIDS, SlowHTTPTest could be used. An example of running SlowHTTPTest is shown as follows:

slowhttptest -c 1000 -B -g -o report -i 110 -r 200 -s 8192 -t GET -u http://test.com -x 10 -p 3