Re: Firewall Load Testing

From: Andrea Barisani <lcars(at)infis.univ.trieste.it>
Date: Wed Dec 11 2002 - 03:03:30 EST

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:42:10PM -0500, Brass, Phil (ISS Atlanta) wrote:
> One of the problems I have found in this arena is that many hosts

Hi,

Many open connections can be simulated with my ftester tool (http://ftester.sourceforge.net), basically you use two packet injectors (one sniffing the traffic generated by the other side) and you let the firewall see a valid handshake and session. In this way you don't have the simultaneous connections problem since the packets are injected and not handled by the stack. Of course you need at least two hosts, one on each side of the firewall. Hope that helps :)

Bye

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