I never considered that, but I bet a Windows server with no firewall would get hammered
I had a whole ixia suite once but got nervous about that dollar amount in bootleg software so I got rid of it. On Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 3:12 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Set up a free proxy to the world, if you build it they will come. > > *From:* Adam Moffett > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 11, 2019 2:05 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Generating traffic > > > You could put a web server on one side and an http stress test tool on the > other. There are several such tools to pick from. That's all I've got. > > It would be interesting to have something that generated a statistically > normal spread of simulated internet usage, but I'm not aware of such a tool. > > -Adam > > > On 12/11/2019 4:00 PM, David Coudron wrote: > > I am not sure if there were any other replies to this, and I have been > slow as I am far from an expert. This is a tough thing to do correctly in > my opinion without a pretty complicated setup. The easiest and simplest > thing would be to set up a few spare computers on the NATed side and have > them run iPerf to your set of clients. But you need a good Virtual > Hosting device to allow for both ends of this and you’ll quickly outrun > your ethernet connectivity on your host device once you get past 6-7 VMs. > So you’ll have to have multiple devices on both sides to do any amount of > this. That is about the best I know. > > > > Regards, > > > > David Coudron > > *From:* AF mailto:[email protected] *On Behalf Of *Steve Jones > *Sent:* Monday, December 9, 2019 11:59 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group mailto:[email protected] > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Generating traffic > > > > I need to test out a mikrotik BMU (Powercode) > > > > What I need to do is generate a ton of traffic from various devices and > types (primarily I want to load NAT) > > > > Is there some software I can do a VM on each side that will mimic a bunch > of clients with various types of traffic, say 50 clients and 150mbps of > traffic 10k NAT sessions. so 50 virtual macs to a bunch of "public" virtual > IPs. > > > > Im not really concerned with the host hardware being able to generate the > traffic well or reliably > > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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