Shane Kerr wrote:
>
> On 2001-09-05 19:44:23 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> >
> > However, to get up past 10000 or so connections will require using
> > something faster than poll(). The easiest for me to support would be
> > /dev/epoll, but that would require you to install a patch. I could
> > whip together support for rtsignals, that would be very efficient,
> > might take me more than a day, though.
>...
> Since port addresses are 16-bits, there are only 65536 on a single box.
> You can use a single port to connect to multiple other addresses if you
> bind() before calling connect(), but the combination of
> src-addr:src-port:dst-addr:dst-port must be unique, IIRC. ...
>
> I'd say you need at least 10 client machines (50K per host) for this.
> If you don't have that kind of hardware lying around, you might be able
> to use user mode Linux and run virtual Linux boxes for the clients.

It's much easier than that. Just configure multiple ip addresses on
the client box, then modify the client program to cycle through the
addresses. That's what the original post asked for, but I didn't quote it.
- Dan

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