<s>
(	O
,	O
German	O
for	O
"	O
mouse	O
tooth	O
"	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
fast	O
network	O
traffic	O
generator	O
written	O
in	O
C	B-Language
which	O
allows	O
the	O
user	O
to	O
craft	O
nearly	O
every	O
possible	O
and	O
"	O
impossible	O
"	O
packet	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
version	O
0.31	O
Mausezahn	B-Language
is	O
open	O
source	O
in	O
terms	O
of	O
the	O
GPLv2	B-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
Herbert	O
Haas	O
,	O
the	O
original	O
developer	O
of	O
Mausezahn	B-Language
,	O
died	O
on	O
25	O
June	O
2011	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
project	O
has	O
been	O
incorporated	O
into	O
the	O
netsniff-ng	B-Protocol
toolkit	O
,	O
and	O
continues	O
to	O
be	O
developed	O
there	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Typical	O
applications	O
of	O
Mausezahn	B-Language
include	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Mausezahn	B-Language
allows	O
sending	O
an	O
arbitrary	O
sequence	O
of	O
bytes	O
directly	O
out	O
of	O
the	O
network	O
interface	O
card	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
version	O
0.38	O
,	O
Mausezahn	B-Language
offers	O
a	O
multi-threaded	O
mode	O
with	O
Cisco-style	O
command	O
line	O
interface	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
version	O
0.38	O
Mausezahn	B-Language
supports	O
the	O
following	O
features	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Mausezahn	B-Language
only	O
sends	O
exactly	O
the	O
packet	O
the	O
user	O
has	O
specified	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
a	O
network	O
administrator	O
could	O
implement	O
audit	O
routines	O
via	O
a	O
script	B-Language
that	O
utilizes	O
Mausezahn	B-Language
for	O
creating	O
the	O
actual	O
packets	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Mausezahn	B-Language
currently	O
runs	O
only	O
on	O
Linux	B-Application
systems	O
and	O
there	O
are	O
no	O
plans	O
to	O
port	O
it	O
to	O
the	O
Windows	O
operating	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
