[netperf-talk] Concurrent connections

[Rick Jones]

Yash Khanduri wrote:
> Hello All,
>  
> I have seen different firewall website and most of them shows three 
> values regarding the performance of a firewall:-
>  
> Firewall Throughput 	100 Mbps 	100 Mbps 	100 Mbps
> VPN Throughput 	35 Mbps 	35 Mbps 	35 Mbps
> Concurrent Sessions 	10,000 	8,000 	6,000
> 
>  
> 1) Firewall and VPN throughput, are these the values related to only TCP 
> data or does it also include UDP throughput. Because, in my testing I 
> was getting TCP throughput values more nearer to above mentioned results.

You would have to ask the firewall provider.

>  
> 2) "Concurrent Sessions" is it showing the connections related to a 
> complete TCP session (Three way Handshake) and is there a way to test it 
> through netperf?

Not easily.  Even netperf4 isn't really setup for creating 10,000 
concurrent connections.

happy benchmarking,

rick jones