Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I want to produce a tool that measure linux firewall performnce. This
> is my MSc's thesis. I have two questions:
> 1) I want to generate application layer load including HTTP, FTP,
> Telnet, SMTP. I don't know how?
If you look on Freshmeat.net there are benchmarking utilities that'll
do just that.
> 2) How can i saturate firewall before clients and servers, by using
> a minimum number of client/server machines.
You can't necessarily, unless you use a slow CPU or boot with
little memory in the firewall. You could otherwise artificially
degrade performance by setting a small MTU on the various hosts'
interfaces, but if you're testing throughput this of course could
be defeating the point.
Since you're doing this for a university, I would assume you could
find volunteers amongst on-campus students with computers directly
connected to the ethernet.
Wil
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