Query on the DNS Client simulator for stress testing

[Brad Dameron]

Dhcperf from Nominum works great. And we are using ISC DHCP 3.1.0 with a
slight mod that we tested can handle over 250,000 clients in a ISP
environment. This was on a dual dual-core 5160 with 4GB and RAID-1 36GB
15k SAS drives.

http://www.nominum.com/services/measurement_tools.php


On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 15:22 +0800, T Manikandan-Q3926C wrote:
> Can anybody help me in identifying a simulator for DHCP? 
> 
> I need to test the DHCP server which is designed to handle 50,000
> clients.
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> I need to perform the following test.
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>      1. each client requesting an IP one at a time
>      2. clients in multiple of 100’s requesting IP at a time
>      3. Clients in multiple of 1000’s requesting IP at a time
>      4. All 50,000 clients requesting IP at a time.
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> Regards
> 
> Mani
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> From:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of T Manikandan-Q3926C
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:10 PM
> To: dhcp-users at isc.org
> Subject: Query on the DNS Client simulator for stress testing
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> Hi,
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>   I have read a mail thread as mentioned below. Can any one please let me know where could I find this tool as mentioned, for simultaneous client simulation.
> 2001-06-05  [1] dhcp client simulation for stress testing             dhcp-clie A_D_Inamdar 
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> Regards
> 
> Mani
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> 
Brad Dameron
Senior Systems Engineer