[gentoo-user] [OT] test lab Quicktime streaming server

[Uwe Thiem]

Hi folks,

does someone know of a piece of software that runs under linux and swallows a 
stream from a Quicktime Streaming Server but just throws the data away (no 
decoding, no displaying)?

This is for torturing the server hardware to determine how many individual, 
concurrent streams it can maintain. A bit of random ff, fb and pausing would 
be nice but not necessary.

Uwe
  
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] test lab Quicktime streaming server

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Wednesday 14 December 2005 07:59 am, Uwe Thiem wrote:
 does someone know of a piece of software that runs under linux and
 swallows a stream from a Quicktime Streaming Server but just throws
 the data away (no decoding, no displaying)?

You may be able to use socat and a bit of shell to do what you want:

http_request=#Whatever you need to request your stream
socat_remote_address=#Something like TCP:your_server:80
stress_level=10
i=0
while [ $i -lt $stress_level ]; do
socat $socat_remote_address  ENDREQUEST  /dev/null 
$http_request
ENDREQUEST
done

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