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Re: [ftpbench] Getting up to many, many clients

On 2001-09-06 09:11:44 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> >
> > 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.

Oh yeah. Nevermind. :)

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Shane
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That's a good idea. I can easily do that. How would you like to specify the addresses? As a file, with one numerical IP address per line, or with some sort...
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... I'm not sure what this means. I assume we're talking 500K simultaneous connections.... Since port addresses are 16-bits, there are only 65536 on a single...
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... 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...
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... Oh yeah. Nevermind. :) -- Shane Carpe Diem...
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