From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 8 19:59:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from snoopy.gwr.com (snoopy.gwr.com [198.88.88.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1841637B400 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 19:59:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1] helo=rune ident=[1FLUYpXCa+aJStxlMf1NF2IHoSer+4u3]) by snoopy.gwr.com with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 175eDD-00066e-00; Wed, 08 May 2002 23:03:23 -0400 From: "Arun Welch" To: "Don Bowman" , Subject: RE: tens of thousands of ip aliases Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 21:58:53 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >=20 > I need to simulate 10K's of IP addresses (actually, I would > like to do 100K's and higher, but am willing to use more > than one PC to get there). >=20 You might want to take a look that what the folks who've written the = Web Polygraph cache test kit (polygraph.ircache.net) have done. If = memory serves you can generate tests simulating large numbers of = clients. It's been about 3 years since I've played with it, but the = default setup used to use 10/8 as the initial source, so things have = probably evolved from there. It was pretty FreeBSD-centric (in fact the = recommended delay simulator was Dummynet). ...arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message