[netperf-talk] Testing simultaneus connections

[Gerd v. Egidy]

Hi,

I want to measure the number of new tcp connections a firewall can handle 
within a given time.

So I need a tool which is able to create several thousand tcp connections per 
second. Over each connection it should send something short like "GET /" and 
wait for about one or two kilobytes answer. Because the number of tcp sockets 
on one ip will probably be exhausted soon, it should allow to use multiple ips 
as source address. As this probably will become a problem on the server side 
too, the server should be able to use multiple ips too.

Does netperf4 already support something like this? Or would it be possible to 
add it with reasonable effort?

Kind regards,

Gerd

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