ISIC (and components) is intended to test the integrity of an IP
Stack and its component stacks (TCP, UDP, ICMP et. al.)  It does
this by generating a controlled random packet (controlled randomness...
wacky huh?).  The user can specify he/she/it [I'm tempted to put
'it' before 'she' :-)] wants a stream of TCP packets.  He/she/it
suspects that the target has weak handling of IP Options (aka
Firewall-1).  So he/she/it does a 'tcpsic -s rand -d firewall
-I100'.  And observes the result.

A great use for ISIC would be to fire it through a firewall and
see if the firewall leaks packets.  But of course that would be
illegal because Network Associates owns a bogus patent on that :-)
You could do that by setting the default route on the sending
computer to the firewall.....  But that would be illegal.  (But I
can't legally have a beer so do you think I care about laws?)

By far the most common use for these tools is testing IDS systems.
A day after I took the source offline and moved it to a cvs server,
a half dozen people working on separate home-grown IDS systems
emailed requesting the source be put back up.

Homepage:
https://isic.sourceforge.net/
