Hi. I'm new to this forum and was wondering if I could get some assistance. I have an SSL Acceleration device that is comparable of supporting 50,000 concurrent connections. I would like to put this in my lab here at work and test the upper limit of this device. I'm concerned about the backend web server needed for this test effort. I'm trying to find out what the "appropriate" number of backend servers needed to test the upper limit of the SSL device. If I understand correctly each backend server is going to have an upper limit of 65535 TCP ports that can be opened (as the Source IP will most likely always be the SSL device). On the surface it looks like the backend server "should" be enough to handle the upper limit of the SSL device. However, that assumes that every connection is successful and the backend server has enough other resources to handle the load. Does anybody have any practical experience with this? And any recommendations on the number of backend servers at a specific load? Thanks in advance
Eric Johnson Nortel Networks SQA Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
