PF performance problems

[Max Laier]

On Saturday 03 March 2007 23:24, Sergey N. Romanov wrote:
> Chris Buechler wrote:
> > You should really find a better way to test your server
>
> Thanks for your info.
> I don't know how to make requests from many different ips.
> I can assign 100 - 200 ip addresses to a network interface on
> web-server and then will make requests to all these addresses from some
> different servers at once. I will have more realistic results with this
> test?

You can also do the same on the probe host.  Usually the benchmark tools 
have an option to specify the source address to bind to.  You should also 
change "net.inet.ip.portrange" ... esp. turn of ".randomized" and set
".[hi]first" to something lower e.g. 1025


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