Hi, I wrote a little traffic generator for testing the embedded firewall we develop. The program can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/traffic. I tested againsts FreeSWAN, and although FreeSWAN is very slow I could not get it to crash on the hardware I tested on. The focus of the tests were more about long term behaviour under load than testing the number of tunnels per second.
Hope this helps. Robert Sandilands > -----Original Message----- > From: Pradeep Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 21 November 2001 02:49 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Security testing - Traffic Generators > > > > > Could any one who has used a traffic generator for IPSEc and > SSL traffic > share their knowledge. > > What is the maximum tunnels achieved. > What is the max tps achieved ? > > This is a new thread so get your creative juices flowing. This should > interest Sys Admins and Sys Engrs who use FW, VPN in their networks. > > Do you know at what point your FW or VPN gateway will crash > down !!!! Yes, > we can do some home work, find this figure and set a trap so > that when this > figure is reached, the CEO can be called while he is on a > vacation and get > a telephonic approval to go for a "better" FW/VPN. > > > Jokes apart ( humour is the only exercise I get ) , we as Security > Proffessionals have a responsibilty in finding the threshold > of the FW/VPN > and plan for expansion / eventuality. > > > -Pradeep > > > > > >
