hi ya
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Wil Cooley wrote:
> 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.
how about something really entertaining and crude ??
( psuedo code )
while ( 1) {
time
wget http://www.foo.com/Test_file.html > /dev/null
}
and
while ( 1 ) {
time
echo quit | ftp ftp.foo.com
}
have fun
alvin
> > 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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