First, thanks for all of the replies. I'm going to go ahead and write the thing and see how it handles the simulators.
I forgot to mention that we're dealing with 30k messages, opps. However, I can simulate traffic in the 250+ messages/second so I'll see where it breaks and report back. The good news is that I don't destroy the connection after each message, that should help a bit. It should be noted that 150+ txn's a second into the application (a reservation system) will bring a E10k with 24 processors to it's knees. thanks again, bobm
